Playing as a winger, Carter featured for Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall, Liverpool, Arsenal, Oxford United and Portsmouth throughout his career.

[3] Carter began his professional career aged 14 at Crystal Palace, who released him when 19,[3] and then had a brief spell with Queens Park Rangers, but failed to make a league appearance for either club.

Carter would play eight first team games for Liverpool, and after just nine months at Anfield he was sold in a £500,000 deal to Arsenal,[6] the club he supported as a young boy, on 8 October 1991.

[2] He spent nearly four years at Highbury, but was never a regular first team player: Anders Limpar, Eddie McGoldrick and Glenn Helder were the usual selections in Carter's preferred position.

[2] In the summer of 1995, with manager George Graham having left the club for disciplinary reasons in February and new coach Bruce Rioch rebuilding the team, Carter signed for Portsmouth, where he spent three years.

[2][7] Carter has appeared for Arsenal in the Masters Cup Football competition for veteran players shown live on Sky Sports.