Empty seats, low rankings and an ever-present ‘fear of winning’. What has gone wrong across the Channel?
On Thursday, the French rugby club Carcassonne announced that they were entering into a commercial partnership with the pornographic website Jacquie et Michel, on the grounds that they “share values of power, endurance, and vigour”.
Carcassonne’s general manager, Christine Menardeau-Planchenault, explained that “as a family club” they had put limits on what Jacquie et Michel could get up to. “There won’t be any naked young women at half-time or any naked rugby,” she explained. Despite that, Menardeau-Planchenault added that while it is normally “hard to get people to the stadium”, tickets for their upcoming match against Biarritz were now “flying out of the box office”.
Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/09/france-rugby-decade-decline-six-nations under the title “A decade of decline: the sad malaise in modern French rugby | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
