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In July there was a hole in my life where the Tour de France should have been. And it was then that I decided to cast off my usual role of armchair fan in favour of the more handson job of Director Sportif/Road Captain in PlayStation 4’s Tour de France 2020 game. Forget Zwift – this is where I get my pixel fix.

I’d be leading the charge with Team Jumbo-Visma. There was a brief flirtation with the idea of getting, at long last, a Frenchman like Thibaut Pinot