If you play the Premier League’s official fantasy football game, you may have downloaded a mobile app for the new season.
You may have also turned on (or forgotten to turn off) notifications for your favourite club.
If you have done both of those things, you might have had an unwelcome distraction this afternoon in the form of hundreds – yes, hundreds – of unwelcome notifications.
If you have the Premier League app and your notifications are going wild, you're not the only one
— Martyn Landi (@MartynLandi) September 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/joehallwords/status/775715954617487360
https://twitter.com/mchlgrhm/status/775715092134526976
Wait, what? pic.twitter.com/i8Tu7RPmu5
— William Paul (@willpooool) September 13, 2016
There’s only one possible explanation for this. No, not an update issue with the app or simple human error. It’s clearly a case of time travel gone wrong.
To commemorate the return of Black Mirror, the Premier League is clearly attempting to bring to life one of the show’s most famous plotlines – the ability to store and revisit memories like new.
Only, instead of the more exciting past episodes from your life, you’re being forced to relive stuff like Nelson Vivas missing a penalty. And just when we’d forgotten he even existed.
I'm gutted Vivas missed a pen pic.twitter.com/npQgTsrrnd
— Olly Haine (@Chiefinho) September 13, 2016
We doubt too many people are delighted to see the flurry of updates. Except, perhaps, fans of clubs like Charlton Athletic and Bradford City, who can now fondly remember a time when their club was among the big boys.
Sure, we’re laughing now, but you just wait until there’s another issue with the Premier League’s flux capacitor and we get stuck in 1997 knowing there’s another 16 years of Sir Alex Ferguson to come. No one needs that.
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