Knibbsworth":z9c58qyz said:
greenpilled":z9c58qyz said:
It's Argyle's equivalent of Walkers Crisps switching the colour of cheese and onion and salt and vinegar crisp packets - widely believed events that are entirely fictitious.
Entirely fictitious? I remember that well!
I remember the advert with Gary Lineker in it. A team with blue shirts and a team with green shirts, and he gets them to swap because Walkers colours were changing.
Perhaps a huge number of people widely believe it - because it did happen.
Getting off topic, but you've proved my point completely - it didn't happen. From Walker's own website:
https://walkers.co.uk/faq/brands-flavou ... ur%20brand.
"Weāre often asked this! Our Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion flavour crisps packs have always been the colours they are today. Contrary to popular belief, weāve never swapped the colours around, not even temporarily. Weāve no plans to change these designs, as theyāre signature to our brand."
Edited to add: There's also a quote from Gary Lineker in this article, claiming (wrongly) that it *did* happen - but before he was involved with the company. So obviously you're confusing different events in your head to imagine an advert that also never occurred.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3a8mzy/ ... our-packet
Bringing it back on topic, the crisp packet change colour myth is sort of like the idea of Adams being a boring manager based on the disappointing game at Wembley and his disastrous last season (more to do with crap players than boring tactics) rather than the football we saw week-in week-out for most of his tenure.
It gets repeated with 'boring' as a mis-used term, and suddenly people 'remember' the boring football. In fact it was about as attack-minded as Argyle have played over the past couple of decades with flair players like Carey, Wylde, Lameiras and Kennedy running at defences, fed by ball-playing midfielders like Fox, Ness, Boateng and Sarcevic.