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THE whingeing Poms appear guilty of blatant hypocrisy after making veiled threats to boycott future Gabba Tests over the behaviour of Brisbane fans.
The country whose unruly cricket supporters viciously abused fast bowler Mitchell Johnson when he was suffering a personal meltdown during the 2009 Ashes in England has now leapt on its high horse.
According to a UK newspaper report, some members of the England and Wales Cricket Board were so outraged by Gabba fan chants of "Stuart Broad is a wanker" they complained to Cricket Australia.
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The report went further by suggesting official representations had been made to CA about the possibility of not playing at the Gabba on future Ashes tours.
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland had late Wednesday heard nothing official from the precious Poms over the apparent boycott threat and Queensland Cricket said it was the first they had heard of it.
Even England media boss Colin Gibson claimed he had "no knowledge" of any complaint from England.
Given those denials, the threat appears a sneaky shot across the bow of Australian cricket from someone within an embarrassed England group which was flogged in Brisbane and is searching for someone to blame.
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Queensland Cricket said it had received no reports of anything too sinister from the Gabba crowd.
"There were no issues reported involving player abuse or complaints received from either side," a Queensland Cricket spokesman said.
"Evictions for crowd misbehaviour were actually down from our previous Ashes Test (in 2010)."
It is believed that some of the precious Poms believed all spectators jeering Broad should have been ejected from the Gabba.
ECB officials are now playing the victims, despite England supporters having a poor record for abusing rival players.
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In 2009, Barmy Army and other England fans heckled the then-troubled Johnson with far worse taunts than what Broad appeared to cop in Brisbane.
The Australian fast bowler's personal life was in turmoil at the time but England fans had little compassion and greeted him with a volley of insults whenever he stepped up to the bowling crease or ventured to the outfield.
As recently as the Ashes tour this winter, Aussie opener Dave Warner was singled out for personal insults by Pommy crowd and Warner laughed them off rather than complain.
While some ECB officials are keen to create a storm over Gabba crowd behaviour, England skipper Alastair Cook, a one-time choir boy, doesn't appear too worried.
"We can't worry about that kind of stuff," Cook said.
"In that last game we didn't do ourselves justice and they got on top and that's what home supporters do when you get on top.
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"Last tour we had the same hostile environment when we got here, but towards the end of the series especially we played some really good cricket and that hostility changes because I thought everyone was very respectful of the way we played."
Despite the bleating from the Poms, it is impossible to imagine the Gabba being dropped as a Test venue.
Kevin Mitchell's pitch is regarded as one of the finest Test surfaces in the world and Australia's record in Brisbane is so imposing it has not lost a Test here since 1988.
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