Who remembers that time, for one of the BBC tournaments, they had a lot of ideas suggested to improve the game? Most of them were pretty stupid. But, by far, the most pointless one was whether to change the colour of the cloth or not.
They asked some of the players, most of which couldn't give a buck. Jimmy White said he thought it was an outrage, because the cloth had always been green. But he thought everything they suggested was an ourtage. If they'd have asked if getting in more sponsors was a good idea, he'd have probably said no.
Anyway, after several days of inane chatter, and wondering if changing the baize from green to blue would bring in thousands more fans, they got round to asking Steve Davis his opinion. Steve said, that the reason it was green, was that when it first went onto television they tried several different colours, and green showed the colours of the ball up the best. So it would probably stay green. It was like, "Glad we didn't ask you first, Steve. It might have rendered days worth of chat unneccessary."