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'...
This camcycle blog post explains the layout, routes and planning history:...
Been available for quite a while, full GRX mechanical 12 speed. Probably around the same time as 105 mechanical 12 speed if I were to guess.
Less harmful citrus degreaser is easy to find at £8 or less for 5 litres. Works ok for me, even diluted up to 4:1. Both paraffin and white spirit...
Nope, it's to keep your straps down and quieter. Plus most sunglasses are polycarbonate and aren't going to shatter like glass anyway
Why do you say Gaza children were killed but Israeli children murdered?...
And, more seriously, where's the coverage of the closure of the cycle lane which forces you to cycle on the Totton bypass.
Claiming an article you haven't read ignores some of the most important facts strikes me as somewhat premature, they do asess exactly that....
Lancashire Police are twinned with Lanarkshire Police.
Garden wall smashed as driver flees the scene of a crash in Willesborough, Ashford...
Except for the bits where it isn't. Unless my maps are broken there is at least one stretch where, if you were travelling south, you'd be driving...