Quote: wigan pie man "your right.........i was looking over from the East and scratching my head........why the need to call sell-out with 1,000 left?.........50 left......maybe yes.'"
Because all season tickets sold count as a seat sold for all games. Wigan can't know if someone is on holiday, sick, stuck in traffic, at work etc so they can't resell those seats. The South Stand is unreserved seating so is limited to around 90% of the actual number of seats (around 500)
I expect that there are only around 1000 seats available for general sale at all Wigans home games, I'm sure LM will have the exact figure.