> Wasn't there a huge stink in Oz over a newspaper headline
> that went  "Poms" did something or other,  sports-related, a
> few years ago?

Last big story not so long ago

"Whingeing Poms take offence at beer's cool marketing gimmick"

The advertisement claims that the brewer Tooheys' new Supercold
brand is "cold enough to scare a Pom" and features footage of an
overweight, pale, balding man in a Union Jack T-shirt cringing in
fear at the offer of a cold beer

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article656235.ece

"A group of British expatriates living in Australia has launched
legal action to outlaw the use of the word in advertising on the
basis that Pom is a derogatory term"

Get over it. A lot of eye-rolling this side of the Tasman. They
claim racism, but Aussies (many descendants of Englishmen)
calling Englishmen-living-in-Aussie "Poms" hardly seems that
grievous. And not likely to make the epithet "whingeing Poms"
go away in a hurry

If you look through Aussie newspapers for "Poms", you'll find
plenty of them in the sports section

"Poms collapse"
"Poms demolished by state team"
"Poms fail to deliver"
"This Pommie side's a joke"
etc etc

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