... the two clubs with which he was most closed associated: Hull City and Sunderland.
Carter was captain of Sunderland, his hometown, on the day the club won the FA Cup for the first time, in 1937, a year after claiming the top-flight league title.
England's Queen consort, later the Queen Mother, handed him the cup after the 3-1 defeat of Preston North End and, whether or not briefed by court officials about Carter's status as a newlywed, told him: "Not a bad wedding present for Mrs Carter."
When great footballers of the past are remembered, Carter's name comes to mind as readily as most.
Sir Stanley Matthews called him "a supreme entertainer".
Sunderland and Arsenal player Charlie Buchan considered him "the greatest inside forward of his generation" and for Tommy Lawton, whose own sparkling career ended at Arsenal, he was "the complete footballer".
Carter played 278 times for Sunderland, scoring 128 goals, and 150 for Hull City, with 62 goals, simultaneously managing the club.
He had been bitterly disappointed not to be taken back to Sunderland after WWII, but became the only player to win an FA Cup winner's medal on both sides of the war, playing for Derby County in their 4-1 victory over Charlton Athletic in 1946.
These days there is a sports centre named after him close to where he grew up in Sunderland and road maps of Hull include a Raich Carter Way.
"Half of our family used to live in Sunderland," said Carter's son, also Raich, a fervently Hull-supporting product of his second marriage, in an interview this week.
"And Sunderland, the city and the football team were always close to my dad’s heart so that naturally runs in my genes and I would always look out for Sunderland's result as soon as Hull City had finished."
But who would the elder Carter have been rooting for in Sunday's sixth round tie?
"Sunderland was always his club, but he looked back on his time with Hull City very fondly," his widow, Pat, the mother of Raich junior, diplomatically said.
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