⁍ Bradley Wiggins says Dave Brailsford would be facing the sack if he were a football manager.

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⁍ Brailsford has masterminded his team’s domination of the race over the past decade.

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⁍ Chris Froome has won four times, Geraint Thomas once and last year Colombian Egan Bernal claimed the overall jersey.

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⁍ Wiggins said it would be dangerous to assume Brailsford’s once all-conquering outfit were in terminal decline.

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– Bradley Wiggins, the first British man to win the Tour de France, says his old boss would be out of a job if he were a soccer manager after a poor Tour de France so far for the Ineos Grenadiers team, Reuters reports. Brailsford has masterminded the team’s domination of the race over the past decade since Wiggins became the first British man to win the Tour in 2012. Chris Froome has won four times, Geraint Thomas once, and last year Colombian Egan Bernal claimed the overall jersey in the team’s first season as Ineos rather than Team Sky. Froome and Thomas were both left off the Ineos Grenadiers team for this year’s race and Bernal blew up on the Col du Grand Colombier on Sunday, losing eight minutes on the leaders to all but end his challenge for the yellow jersey. “It’s hard to stay on top every year and this year they’ve just not got it right,” Wiggins tells Eurosport. “I don’t know what’s happened there. For a team that’s performance oriented and such planning that goes into their seasons, it’s just not worked for them for one reason or another. Had it been football, Dave would be out.” Wiggins says Brailsford has been at the team for years and the team will “re restructure and re-plan and come back next year with a full line-up.”