When Saturday afternoons came around, Tom Carroll had to get out of the house ... the second tier of English football, and League One, its third, and Tottenham even asked if he was open to ...

"He's almost like the brain of the team" is the way Exeter City manager Gary Caldwell describes new signing Tom Carroll ... and Ipswich Town in the English Football League moved to Exeter ...

Reading have signed former Tottenham Hotspur and Swansea City midfielder Tom Carroll on a short-term deal ... "We're delighted to bring in a player of Tom's experience into the building," manager ...