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North Melbourne premiership legend Wayne Carey has pinpointed what prompted his pub clash with Anthony Stevens on Saturday as the bad blood between the pair boiled to the surface decades after he betrayed his ex-teammate in one of the AFL's most infamous incidents.
Carey's fling with Stevens' ex Kelli became the biggest sex scandal in Australian sports history when they were caught together in a toilet at a house party in 2002, leading to the two-time premiership captain leaving the club in disgrace.
The pair were at Yarraville's Railway Hotel in inner-city Melbourne for a 1996 premiership reunion on Saturday night when they had a heated altercation.
Carey (pictured left, with Stevens in 1999) says the pair's clash happened after he told his ex-mate he was worried about him and urged him to look after himself
The Kangaroos premiership winner (second from right during the reunion of the club's 1996 flag-winning team on Sunday) is adamant that reports the confrontation almost got physical are way off the mark
Carey has denied reports they had to be physically separated after their row left Kangaroos teammates 'stunned', but has now come clean on what led to the stoush.
'I wanted to have a conversation with Stevo, I was worried about him,' he said on Triple M radio on Wednesday.
'I said "I am worried about you" and ... he obviously took a little bit of umbrage to me saying I was worried about him.
'I said I want him to look after himself like people want me to look after myself.
'Now, he took a little bit of umbrage to that, but to say that it was a massive altercation or came to blows, and then we left there and everyone was upset with everyone and it was a big thing, is totally incorrect.'
Stevens (left, clashing with Carey in 2002 after he joined the Adelaide Crows) didn't attend the reunion on Sunday - with
