I quite like reading him. Obviously I’m not that qualified to comment on his expertise, but he is a good writer.
In fact the answer to the original question is a classic example of getting your stuff off the web versus getting it from the paper. In today’s paper the article about Froome is directly below a longer article from Fotheringham, basically announcing his retirement from full-time coverage of Grand Tours. So that’s perhaps why he needed to get it in now.