A CHOIR made up of 64 football fans, some from the North-East, will sing at Wembley during this year's FA Cup Final - including two Elvis impersonators, a karaoke champion, and a 100-year-old supporter.

The BBC's Songs Of Praise launched a competition to find a representative of each of the 64 teams which played in the third round of the competition this year, and received over 1,300 applications.

The winners will sing the traditional Abide With Me hymn, with the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas, in front of 90,000 people on May 30.

Fans were told that no singing experience was necessary - but the winners will now be given an online lesson to practise before the big day.

The 64 men and women will meet up for the first time on the day before the final and will rehearse the hymn on Wembley's pitch.

The winners include Newcastle fan Jim Errington, who will be 100 just before the game.

The retired Methodist minister was nominated by a woman he christened in the 1950s.

He first went to watch Newcastle in 1928 as a schoolboy, paying sixpence to catch the bus to St James's Park, and another sixpence to get into watch a game. He got a season ticket in the 1980s when they were first introduced.

Some of the fans are singers, including Middlesbrough follower Mike McGrother, lead vocalist with a band called the Wildcats Of Kilkenny.

Aaqil Ahmed, head of commissioning, religion, TV and head of religion & ethics at the BBC, said: "It truly is a once in a life-time opportunity to perform at the FA Cup Final and for two members of the choir, whose clubs will be playing in the final, it's the stuff dreams are made of."