"Typical of the Tyneside metro to disrupt something happening in Sunderland, they wouldn't strike on a NUFC matchday or the great north run so why choose to strike when they know there is a Coldplay gig on at the Stadium of Light?".

Is anyone else just finding this strike to be incredibly selfish? To deliberately stage a strike on a day that thousands of people are planning to go to a concert and had been relying on metro travel.