The best-supported rugby club in Europe raised its average attendance to new heights last weekend, leaving Toulouse and Leicester further behind in the bums-on-seats business.
Bordeaux have surpassed not merely the duo envied for their crowds on either side of the Channel but everyone else, including Leinster. Their numbers, inflated by the phenomenal 80,000 at Croke Park for the Munster match last autumn, still fall short of those generated by the Pied Pipers on the banks of the Garonne.
L’Union Bordeaux Begles, their official title since the amalgamation of 2007, have averaged 33,192 for t...
