We have enough unemployment during the best of times but during the biggest recession since WW2?, Its obvious why people have the time tbh.
Also with the ground in the city centre, there are enough people passing by all day.
Most people tend to forget that when they take the piss about all the mongs. It's not as if Sunderland or Boro would have many passers-by with their out of town stadiums, and it's not as if nowt really happens at those anyway.
suppose, yous are right, just had this image in my head, of people , hearing the news, and thinking, i will get the bus to town and stand outside the ground.