Something tells us Aaron Ramsey won't be nudging Rob Page to save Geraint Thomas a space on the plane to Qatar next month...
The podium finisher at this year's Tour de France is a proud Arsenal fan, and this week offered to take fellow Gunner Remco Evenepoel to the Emirates for a game, although on the evidence of this clip of a training ground visit to fellow Ineos-sponsored team OGC Nice, Thomas doesn't quite have the footballing talent of the former PSV Eindhoven youth prospect turned rainbow jersey.
The video reminds us the world's best cyclists — Hour Record hero Filippo Ganna, Ethan Hayter, Ben Swift and Thomas — are all human after all, and when they're out of their comfort zone, not smashing ridiculous watts out on 10 grand bikes, their sporting skills can... well, leave something to be desired...
Maybe cycling legs aren't all that great for kicking a football... not that G saw anything wrong with his performance...
PR-friendly team camp visits aside, OGC Nice represents one of Ineos' larger sporting ventures, with the Ligue 1 side overseen by director of sport Sir Dave Brailsford.
The British Cycling/Sky/Ineos mastermind has reportedly been living in a caravan at Nice's training ground as he attempts to improve their fortunes, something which has thus far been unsuccessful, the South of France side languishing in 13th in the country's top league
French football journalist Julien Laurens recently said Brailsford had made "a lot of mistakes at Nice" and had been "very much counterproductive to what the project is and what it should be".
"He reminds me a little bit of Sir Clive Woodward when England won the Rugby World Cup. He thought he could go into any sport, including football, and be successful and it just doesn't happen like that," Laurens said.
One such mistake has seemingly been signing too many players from an English background, something Laurens called "silly recruitment".
"You have to explain to me what the logic behind it was, what the idea was and where they are going because it doesn't really make much sense. Maybe you can make sense of it when you know Dave Brailsford is there. He clearly thinks he can do a good job in football," he continued.
Anyway, enough of the serious football business, here's how the internet reacted to Ineos Grenadiers' 'skills'...
Yes, so who's marshalling the old data?
Life must be horrible being a right whinger, waking up every day wondering who (and how) they're going to spread their hate. Imagine being that...
VRT have an interview with Tiesj Benoot. He says the plan was to attack on the Kanarieberg. He was leading Wout, and Wout said "Go!". Tiesj stood...
Staffordshire Bull terriers are no more dnagerous than any other dog, probably less dangerous than many. My little angel.
He's not the sharpest tool in the box, is he?
"can’t thank @LancsPolice enough for their assistance."
Once again, any comments about cyclists not using cycling infrastruture are completely missing the point that it wouldn't be necessary if people...
It really is entirely accurate. None of these Gammonflakes can even define what "woke" means. It appears to be everything from not wanting racism...
Here's my 2011 Fuji track bike. Had it repainted and use it for all my commutes in San Francisco.
Buy a Honda CBR600RR for roughly the same amount of money*....