Being blocked from watching Hornets games in Charlotte effectively stunts the ability of the city to rally around a team that is quickly becoming more and more exciting. We should be able to watch every Hornets game on local networks, and I am sure the local networks can stop showing news for 3 hours for a game that will also help with local businesses advertising during those games. Gatekeeping it behind a paywall benefits everybody but the fans.
If sports is supposed to be for entertainment, then what benefit are the entertainers providing us by pushing programming across a myriad of platforms while also raising prices to access the entertainment? It is not raising the value of the end product for any sport, so why should we continue to pay for it when it only benefits so few people?
Football data editor at Opta, @michael_reid11: "We obviously have data for all the Premier League era, so from 1992-93 onwards, but Salah's records were so ridiculous that we realised we had to go beyond that. The amount of times we were doing stats and you'd try to put other players up on a leaderboard but Salah would be just there ahead of them. It would be just impossible to get a table where Salah wasn't above this player because he was so multifaceted. What we tried to do was get maybe two or three Salah records or stats lined up before every game. He got to a point where every time he gets a goal or assist, there's some sort of record he's breaking."