Generous gesture....... haha good one.
It was opened for people who wanted a quick getaway.
As a kid, occasionally when I was tight for cash, I would wander along at about 4.00 and get in with the small group of freeloaders who hung about at the gate.
In those days nearly everyone was pay at the gate, the season ticket target market did not include the riffraff.
I was always conscious of the fact that you were paying for 50 minutes football, and it was the first 50 minutes not the last 40 minutes when games were usually won or lost.