Shortly after his family moved back to Liverpool, Carter visited Everton Football Club's Goodison Park home for the first time.Asked why Everton hadn't competed for the forward's signature, Carter replied: ‘Everyone was of the opinion that Francis was a first-class player, myself included, but we felt that a million pounds was a ridiculous price for anyone … I am certain the board and myself would not condone that sort of irresponsible behaviour’.On 31 October 1987, he famously disowned a host of Everton fans who were making racist chants at Liverpool winger John Barnes in a First Division Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.[5][6] Carter married Harriet Rita Evans (1925 - 2021), a machinist at a glove factory, at St Edmund's Roman Catholic Church, Waterloo, Liverpool, on 25 May 1946.On 23 April 2015, Carter died at his home in Noctorum Road, Birkenhead, after a battle against liver cancer which had been diagnosed the previous year.