Controversial ex-footy star involved in an ugly spat outside a popular pub

Controversial AFL great Wayne Carey has been filmed in a messy scuffle with another man outside a popular Melbourne pub.

The video, which has been plastered across social media, was filmed outside The Albert Park Hotel just after 8pm on Thursday. 

Carey, 54, and an unidentified man appeared to engage in a shouting match with a third man wearing a backpack. 

The former North Melbourne captain was later seen grabbing the backpack-wearing man by the sleeve of his shirt while the other man implored Carey to ‘relax’. 

The other two men then engaged in their own shouting match before the backpack wearing man appeared to shove him. 

A woman bystander soon yelled for the trio to ‘move it on’ before the men parted ways while trading parting verbal barbs. 

Footy legend Wayne Carey has found himself in the spotlight again after being filmed in an altercation with another man outside a Melbourne pub

Carey is pictured celebrating the 1996 North Melbourne grand final win over the Sydney Swans alongside coach Dennis Pagan

Carey told the Herald Sun he had been harassed by the man with whom he became entangled. 

‘Unfortunately, there are antagonists who target you based on your experiences as a has-been footballer, he said. 

‘This individual is a serial harasser — and he chose to repeat his behaviour through vile and obscene slurs, again, last night.’

A spokesperson for Victoria Police told Daily Mail Australia police were called to an incident in Albert Park on Thursday. 

‘It is believed two men were involved in an altercation outside a licensed premises on Dundas Street just after 8pm,’ they said. 

‘Both males had left the area prior to police attending and no official report has been made.’

An Albert Park resident said Carey and the backpack-wearing man were heard yelling at one another inside the venue before moving outdoors. 

Carey was reportedly seen embracing controversial journalist Dylan Howard at the inner-city pub earlier that evening. 

Controversial US journalist Dylan Howard (left) is pictured alongside President Donald Trump. Howard and Carey were reportedly seen together at the Melbourne pub on Thursday

Carey recently opened up about his affair with his former teammate Anthony Steven’s (right) wife Kelli (left) calling it the ‘single-biggest mistake’ of his footy career

Mr Howard was a central figure in the US tabloid the National Enquirer’s strategy to minimise negative press about Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2016 US election. 

Carey and Mr Howard were rumoured to be friends earlier this year, having previously been spotted at venues across Melbourne, according to The Age. 

It is only the latest scandal in Carey’s decades-long career of courting controversy. 

The father-of-four recently opened up about his fling with his teammate Anthony Stevens’ now ex-wife Kelli in 2002, calling it the ‘single-biggest mistake’ of his career. 

‘Obviously there was guilt, there was shame, there’s toxic shame and that lasted forever in a day,’ he said on the Shaped podcast on Thursday. 

Carey left North Melbourne following the cheating scandal to join the Adelaide Crows, later admitting on reality TV show SAS Australia it ‘haunted me for over 20 years’.  

He also confessed to being unfaithful in past relationships, telling host Trent Cotchin it came from a place of poor self-worth and shame. 

‘I was not a good partner in terms of being unfaithful,’ he said.

Carey has courted several controversies since retiring from football in 2004

‘It’s the insecurity in yourself, it’s the shame, it’s wanting, needing someone else to make you feel good about yourself whether it be company, whether it be sex, whatever it may be.’

Carey is regarded as one of the greatest centre-half forwards to have ever played the game, having been a seven-time All-Australian and four-time Syd Barker medallist.

Since retiring in 2004, he has rarely been far from the spotlight. 

In 2007 he was arrested in the United States after allegedly breaking a wine glass in his fiancée Kate Neilson’s face. 

He later pleaded guilty to two counts of battery of a law enforcement officer over a subsequent altercation with his arresting officers. 

The following year, police discharged capsicum spray in an attempt to subdue Carey after he allegedly assaulted officers in Port Melbourne. 

In 2022, Channel Seven let him go after he was kicked out of a Perth casino when a bag containing unidentified white powder allegedly fell from his pocket.  

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