Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Who's Bourgeois Now?



Bernard Laporte has been criticised by his boss for describing the Parisian crowd as "bourgeois" - upset that his French team were being jeered despite leading Ireland by forty points.

This surprised me somewhat. Look at the picture on the left. Wouldn't "bourgeois" be one of the first words you'd think of to describe the man in the glasses?