AFL booing row: Shane Warne under fire for tweet attacking Adam Goodes

Shane Warne. Photo / Getty

Australian cricketing great has come under fire after weighing in on the Adam Goodes debate and whether fans should boo the Aboriginal AFL player.

As AFL and NRL players rally behind Goodes, who has taken extended leave and is reportedly considering retirement, Shane Warne tweeted the booing had nothing to do with racism.

"This whole Adam Goodes drama is ridiculous. The public can boo or chant whoever's name they want! It's nothing to do with being racist... ," Warne wrote.

"If the public don't like a sportsman because of the way they play the game, they boo, if they like them they cheer, nothing to do re racism."

Warne was bombarded with responses from fellow Twitter users saying he was off the mark.

@ShaneWarne except when it is. Might wanna walk a mile in those shoes champ.

— Bruce MacKenzie (@beejaymac10) July 30, 2015

@ShaneWarne Yeah, it does, drongo.

— Previous Leon (@samscherr) July 30, 2015

.@ShaneWarne sound just like the school bully who says "he bought it on himself" or "I just don't like him." So that makes it ok?

— Tania Armstrong (@strongarmtan) July 30, 2015

Hilarious & so over the top. The people that want to voice their hysteria can go for it !!!!! https://t.co/b1oLJALWtH

— Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) July 30, 2015

Warne and Goodes were previously involved in a Twitter stoush in 2014, when the cricketer accused Goodes of diving during AFL games.

The famed spin bowler also expressed his 'shock' when he was informed Goodes was the current Australian of the Year.

"Shocked as I just found out Goodes was Aust of the year, wow ! Who votes for that ?" he asked Australian captain Michael Clarke on Twitter.

Yesterday former AFL player Jason Akermanis told Goodes to stop "playing the victim" and said those who label the booing of the dual Brownlow medallist as racist are kidding themselves.

"Any stupid journalists who said that they're racist is kidding themselves," the Brownlow Medallist and triple premiership player told Fox Sports on Thursday.

"I got booed and no one ever said it was racist. (Former league star) Benny Elias got booed when we were in Queensland because he was from NSW. Umpires get booed every week.

"Adam Goodes has got to stop looking like a sook and stop making it about him in this sense, and also he should stop trying to play the victim."