The reason people cheered for the Southern Europeans is they have
panache. Style. Class. They make riding look good.
Contrast with Froome's Praying Mantis style of strangling his bike trying to rip it's head off. If you're going to dope and win, at least make it look good. Sky can't even do that.
The funny thing is with sports in Britain, half the doped to the gills winners are Plastic Brits. Not even from that tiny land mass. People acquired because the UK couldn't even grow their own. I don't know what is sadder, the hatred against the Southern Europeans bordering on full blown racism, the unmitigated sport wide British assault to victory through doping, the lack of flair, class and panache or handing Johnny Foreigner a passport and saying he's your own? Maybe a combination of them all?