Frustrated Laporte vents fury on ‘bourgeois’ French fans

FRENCH coach Bernard Laporte launched an astonishing Roy Keane-style attack on his own country’s fans after out-half Frederic Michalak was booed off the field on Saturday.

The Stade de France crowd had already barracked the Toulouse player on a handful of occasions when clearances to touch skewed off his boot, but the chorus of boos and whistles as he left the field after 69 minutes was surprisingly ferocious.

"The only people that should be allowed into the stadiums are the volunteers and the amateurs. We will put (the supporters) on the pitch and see how much they know about rugby," said Laporte, who went on to describe the fans as "bourgeois shits."