player Cliff Lyons. Later life Following his retirement from the AFL, Winmar played with various clubs in regional and country leagues in Victoria and the Northern Territory, including for the Palmerston Football Club in the Northern Territory Football League, for the Warburton and Seville Football Clubs in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League and for Rutherglen and the Wodonga clubs in the Tallangatta & District Football League. Having previously worked with Denfam (a Melbourne-based construction business) and as a shearer, Winmar was employed with the mining industry and living in Brookton, Western Australia, as of May 2012. On a visit to Perth in September 2012, Winmar had a heart attack and was hospitalised at Royal Perth Hospital. Winmar was named in St Kilda's Team of the Century (announced in 2003) on a half-forward flank and has also been inducted into the club's hall of fame. Winmar was subsequently named in the AFL's Indigenous Team of the Century, announced in 2005, as well as South Fremantle's Indigenous Team of the Century, named in 2009, and was also inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in the same year. A tournament for underage indigenous footballers, the Nicky Winmar Cup, has been contested since 2009 as a joint venture between the West Australian Football Commission and the Western Australian Department of Sport and Recreation, sponsored by Alinta, an energy company. Two of Winmar's cousins, Leroy Jetta and Nicholas Winmar, were formerly listed with AFL clubs ( and St Kilda, respectively). Winmar was convicted and fined in 2000 for assaulting his ex-wife on Christmas Day of the previous year. In 2019, Winmar pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a taxi driver in March of that year. On June 14, 2022 Nicky was inducted into AFL Hall of Fame. Racial vilification Winmar was involved in a number of controversial incidents involving alleged acts of racial vilification against him by other players and staff during his career. In 1998, after Winmar's reaction to Carlton, former Hawthorn player Dermott Brereton publicly apologised to Winmar and Russell Jeffrey for abusing them in a game in 1990. In March 1999, television presenter and former footballer Sam Newman appeared on The Footy Show in blackface after Winmar cancelled an appearance on the show in favour of appearing on a rival network. Newman was later forced to apologise for the incident, subsequently breaking a confidentiality agreement that