{"id":45751,"date":"2022-07-17T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45751"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T13:26:04","slug":"in-pictures-lionel-messi-duplicates-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45751","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Lionel Messi duplicates in Edinburgh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We reported last week on the news that Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 were advertising on an Edinburgh Tram for the first time with a design promoting their new Messi Burger on <strong>262<\/strong>. And now there are two Lionel Messi\u2019s in the city as an identical advert is also on <strong>277<\/strong> \u2013 does this finally put an end to the debate as to whether Messi or Ronaldo is the greatest ever considered the Argentinian superstar has two trams with his image on and Ronaldo has none?!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The advert on <strong>277<\/strong> replaces a design for the Edinburgh International Festival \u2013 interesting timing of this change considering the Festival is about to kick off (starts 5<sup>th<\/sup> August) \u2013 and is the fourth advert for this tram. Previous designs include CR Smith (September 2017 to October 2020), Parabola My Edinburgh Park (October 2020 to June 2021) and Edinburgh International Festival (June 2021 to July 2022).<\/p>\n<p>This design is identical to that carried on <strong>262<\/strong> so it\u2019s a case of looking closely at the fleet number to make sure which is which!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45752\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45752\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45752\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.277-rb-550x327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.277-rb-550x327.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.277-rb-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.277-rb-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.277-rb.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">277 at Princes Street heading out to the Airport.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_45753\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45753\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45753\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45753\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.277-rb-550x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.277-rb-550x311.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.277-rb-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.277-rb-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.277-rb.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up view of the Messi Burger. (Both Photographs by Robin Barnes, 12th July 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reported last week on the news that Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 were advertising on an Edinburgh Tram for the first time with a design promoting their new Messi Burger on 262. 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