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Sunderland fans are prepared to pay a serious sum to watch a team that is yet to win on the pitch on the other side of the turnstile in 2017. This is a scene that, simultaneously, bemuses and intrigues. Photograph: Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC via Getty Images
Turnstile 46, Stadium of Light, Sunderland, 7.40pm Tuesday: above the dual entrance a red sign says £30. There is a queue each side, a dozen deep and growing. Admittedly most shuffling through hold pre-paid stubs from the office across the car park where a “walk-up” ticket costs a fiver less.