I took a knock or two during my first year in Madrid. With the standards set by the club, you could never say you were in a comfort zone at Manchester United. But for 15 years, Old Trafford(stadium) had been home for me, as a soccer player at least. I knew how things worked and understood exactly what was expected of me. Now I'd been whisked off to a new country and didn't really have a clue what was coming next. I was bracing myself for the challenge; unfamiliar surroundings, a different language, and another way of life. Soccer's soccer wherever you're playing it, of course, but i was pretty sure that training at Real would be very different to what I'd grown used to back home. How much of what I'd learnt so far, as a player and as a person,was going to be of any use to me here?