Originally Posted by
T250
the fact remains that the flight crew should but were not listening to ATC.
Nobody is going to argue with that, but in this instance it's irrelevant to the sequence of events that unfolded, which would otherwise have been:
Ground: "Speedbird 81D, stop pushback due aircraft passing behind you"
BA: "Ground, we have already stopped thanks to the vigilance of the tug crew"
Ground: "Ah, OK"