Premier League website crashed by Liverpool and Spurs midweek goal fest

Following my moan earlier in the week about websites failing to cope with demand, I spotted this last night, and again today on the Premier League's Fantasy Football website:










Of course! Why would you plan for the post match peaks, rather than the off-peak lulls?

This problem I can't be so scathing about as they offer the service for free, and I wasn't trying to give them any money, but even still you'd have thought a professional outfit, which knows a thing or two about football would expect the kind of peaks in traffic which "typically occur after a game update". Who saw that coming!

The ability to run a website is no longer an 'impressive if you can' kind of achievement, it's a 'worrying if you can't' indictment on a business.