You’ve probably seen it by now – a tweet accusing one of the VAR officials of making some early changes to his Fantasy Premier League team in the middle of Arsenal’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool.
After another weekend of long and agonising refereeing debates, it says a lot about the wider faith in VAR’s functionality and the integrity of those involved that hundreds of thousands of people appeared to instantly believe either Michael Salisbury or his assistant Darren Cann were debating were debating who to transfer out this week.
But this, of course, is not the case.
The Premier League has confirmed to i that the official was using the Match Manager app, which includes in-game information such as the line-ups and live substitutions.
No personal devices are allowed in the VAR Hub, and the Match Manager is in operation at Stockley Park for every Premier League game.
The two apps look similar because they are both made by the Premier League and hosted within the same online domain.
And so while you may still have plenty of questions about how VAR officials can award a penalty for West Ham against Manchester United, or even why they did not choose to send off Micky van de Ven against Crystal Palace, they are not making these mistakes because they are checking their FPL teams.
Premier League officials are not allowed to play FPL and although players still are, plenty of clubs have individually banned it due to the risk of inadvertently leaking team information through in-game transfers, which has happened on multiple occasions.
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