Editing Wayne Carey (section)

==Legacy==
Carey has been named by many media commentators as the greatest footballer to play the game.<ref name="Mike Sheahan's top 50 players" /><ref name="Legend no.3: The King">{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Martin|url=http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/legend-no3-the-king/2008/07/02/1214950846978.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201175322/http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/legend-no3-the-king/2008/07/02/1214950846978.html |archive-date=1 December 2008|title=Legend no.3: The King|newspaper=The Age|access-date=2 July 2011|date=3 July 2008}}</ref><ref name="21 gun">{{cite news|last= Sheahan|first=Mike|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/carey-the-best-in-21-gun-salute/story-fn8ymmuy-1226085123110|title=Carey the best in 21-gun salute|newspaper=Herald Sun|access-date=2 July 2011|date=1 July 2011}}</ref> In 1999,{{Citation needed|date=August 2022|reason=While it's not up for question that Matthews said this, I can only see a secondary source from 2013; a primary source from 1999 would be helpful.}} [[Leigh Matthews]], who was voted the greatest player of the 20th century, honoured Carey by saying that he was the best player he had ever seen.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-07-28 |title=Lethal Combo: Matthews' best team |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/afl/afl-hall-of-fame-legend-leigh-matthews-selects-his-best-team-ng-b86a963aa4cc3e58b94911c47fe25caf |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=PerthNow |language=en}}</ref> In 2008, Carey was named as Australian Football's greatest-ever player as part of a list of the top 50 players of all time, published in the book ''The Australian Game of Football'',<ref name="Mike Sheahan's top 50 players" /> and he placed third in a similar list put together by a panel of football legends in ''[[The Age]]'' newspaper the same year.<ref name="Legend no.3: The King" /> In 2011, the ''[[Herald Sun]]'' polled 21 past and present AFL greats, including Carey, to find the players' opinion as to the greatest player of the AFL era. Carey topped the list, polling 85 of a possible 100 votes, 26 votes ahead of second-placed [[Gary Ablett Sr.]]<ref name="21 gun" />

"Sure Got Me" on [[Paul Kelly (Australian musician)|Paul Kelly]]'s 2004 double album ''[[Ways & Means (album)|Ways & Means]]'' recounts the love triangle involving Carey, Anthony Stevens, and Stevens's wife at the time, Kelli.<ref name="songs">[ABC Radio National – The Sports Factor – "Leaps and Bounds" – 28 May 2004]. Retrieved 1 April 2013.</ref> [[Hunters & Collectors]] frontman [[Mark Seymour]] also wrote a song inspired by the affair, but he declined to release it after learning of Kelli's take on the events.<ref name="songs"/> [[TISM#Members|Jock Cheese]], bassist of the satirical Melbourne band [[TISM]], released a tribute to Carey titled "Why Don't You Get A Bigger Set of Tits?" on his 2002 solo album ''[[Platter (album)|Platter]]''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Jock Cheese - Platter |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/2728790-Jock-Cheese-Platter |language=en |access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref>