Riviera, your one of my favourite posters, probably cos I'm not as old as you I think, approaching 40, but my mind is shot and I get things mixed up all the time- too many e's and coke on match days messing me about before I grew bored of it all.
However you will know Sunderland fans will go to great lengths to watch a match and I'm really suprised you think theyres anything wrong with taking kids in the wrong end if you can't get tickets. I've been to loads of games when we've had at least 100+ sometimes 1000+ in the wrong end, not to cause bother, just to watch games. IMHO nowt wrong with it at all