After leaving West Ham, Carroll spent two years rebuilding his health at his boyhood membership Newcastle, earlier than dropping into the Championship with Studying.
He explains that these lengthy spells on the sidelines in England have impressed his late profession and delayed any ideas of retirement.
“I have not actually centered on ending but, so I can not even take into consideration what I’ll do afterwards,” he says.
“If I wasn’t knowledgeable footballer, I might be enjoying it as a interest. So, I am simply lucky that I am nonetheless enjoying at my age on the stage the place I am having fun with it and getting paid for it.
“After I signed for Amiens, it was only a completely different lifestyle – simply quiet and relaxed. Strolling down the road was effective.
“I have been on the high stage the place individuals are on £100,000-a-week, and then you definately come to France and the lads are on nowhere close to that, they usually’re coming in on daily basis, working onerous and with a smile on their face. And we’re going residence, having barbecues and stuff like that.
“It is only a utterly completely different lifestyle and it is simply sensible. It is simply precisely what I wished and precisely what I wanted in my life.”
Carroll is working his property enterprise within the north east and usually travels again to London to see his household.
“My sons hold saying, ‘Oh, it’s best to go into administration’. However I am going to hold saying nicely, ‘hopefully, in the future, you are sufficiently old you could be part of me and be my strike associate in the identical staff enjoying with one another,” he smiles.
“They’re actually good gamers. In order that’s in all probability extra my dream than retiring and doing one thing else.”
