Exeter’s Tom Carroll: ‘I was thinking what’s wrong with me, why can’t I stay fit?’ | Football
Tom Carroll is recalling the instances when it turned abundantly obvious that he wanted to return to the sport he had performed since becoming a member of Tottenham as an eight-year-old. He spent final season with no membership, and seeing the scores roll in on the vidiprinter turned tough. “I might have Soccer Saturday on and I’d be like: ‘I don’t know if I can watch this,’” the 31-year-old says. “You’d see so many names pop up: ‘Yep, performed with him, in opposition to him.’ Then you definately assume: ‘Gah, that ought to nonetheless be me.’ You search for your outdated golf equipment and I’d be like: ‘I can’t watch this, I’m going to must take the canine out.’” So Carroll, the previous Tottenham, Aston Villa, Swansea, Queens Park Rangers and Ipswich midfielder, would take Griff, the Welsh terrier he obtained shortly after signing for Swansea, for a stroll close to the household house in Hertfordshire. “My norm for Saturdays was matchdays … my missus was most likely getting fed up with me as a result of that was after I was my grumpiest,” he says, breaking right into a sheepish grin of types. “Mentally,…