Le Shameful Scenes: Two French Academy Sides Go Toe-To-Toe In Monumental Scrap

In GAA we know the scale when it comes to fistycuffs.

It goes thusly: handbags - schmozzle - melee - shameful scenes.

Given the procilivity for scraps in French rugby, you wonder if their media have a similar scale for measuring the seriousness of the scuffles seen at various levels of their game.

Over the weekend, the academy sides of Biarritz and Beziers clashed - on the pitch and off it - in what we will classify as 'le shameful scenes'.

Both players and spectators were involved in an incident which went of for nearly two minutes.

Biarritz won the game 28-0.

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