Premier League’s time-travel experiment is full of glitches

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. https://twitter.com/MartynLandi/status/775714628013883392 https://twitter.com/joehallwords/status/775715954617487360 https://twitter.com/mchlgrhm/status/775715092134526976 https://twitter.com/willpooool/status/775714971439235072 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. https://twitter.com/Chiefinho/status/775714950786482176 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. Read more