Fans went to social media after seeing a virtual assistant referee at stockily park have a mobile phone with what appeared to be fantasy premier league branding and was convinced that Var was checking there points for this week
What is fpl ?
Fantasy premier league ( FPL)
Is an app where fans can pick there 11 starting players and
6 subs for that game week with 100 million pound budget
Fans can look through stats and get advice by experts to pick there
Players that week for the local leagues or there national league or
A league full of people who support the same premier league club
As you
What is Var ?
Var is ( virtual assistant referee )
Helps officials on the pitch when they need to make tough decisions like
Offside or calls for a penalty and Very dangerous fouls which can lead to a red card
So why all the fuss
Well as you could probably guess refs can’t be fans and have to be neutral
So when fans saw what they believed was the fpl app .
So what happened
Well the rumours we debunked by an expert who said it was the Match centre app
For referring decisions Has the same colour banners and that’s what it is
How could this be resolved
Quite simple
Change the colour and Fonts of the app
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