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I had learnt some basic survival skills in treatment - how to cook, stick to a budget, pay my bills - but mainly I'd learnt that all I could do to keep from falling over was to keep on walking forward.The first job I got was as a labourer I lasted less than a week I didn't know how to dig a ditch. But I am used to the quicker game now, which is why I have got forward more this season. I know when to go, and when to stay."He is still sometimes pushed into the Arsenal midfield, but declares himself most comfortable at right-back. In England, he says, his trickiest opponents have been Ryan Giggs and Damien Duff. As for the world's best in his own position, he unhesitatingly picks Cafu "I've been watching him since I was a kid. He's got everything; power, big lungs, he crosses the ball well, and he's still playing well at 34 years.

Incredible."His own considerable ability, as well as his experience of Premiership football, has given him stature among Arsenal's recent recruits from La Liga Clearly, he enjoys playing the elder statesman. "When you come to England from Spain you need help to settle. I had that from Patrick [Vieira] and others, and so I do my best to make them feel at home here. I go out to restaurants with them, and invite them to my house. My wife has cooked paella for [Cesc] Fabregas, and [Manuel] Almunia has been twice. [Jose Antonio] Reyes didn't come yet, but he was invited."A few reassuring words of Spanish must have been particularly welcome, I venture, to Almunia, whose goalkeeping has been more than a little erratic. This was prescient of me; little more than 24 hours later, some were blaming Almunia for the goal at Bolton.

But this time Lauren frowns."In his first few games he was a bit insecure, yes, but since then he has improved a lot. There is a big responsibility for goalkeepers here, because there has been doubt about the position since David Seaman left. I played with Seaman for three seasons and he was very good, not just on the pitch but in the dressing-room. Before the game he used to talk to me and Ashley Cole, telling us to be ourselves, saying the things that young players need to hear. But I think Almunia can also be very good for Arsenal."In the long term he will be the club's No 1, I think." Ahead of Jens Lehmann, in other words? Lauren roars with laughter, and does some deft backpedalling "I can't say that he is better. They are two great keepers."He is being admirably supportive of his team-mates, yet Lauren it was whose scrap with Vieira following the Champions' League match against Rosenborg last September reportedly had to be broken up by Norwegian police, who were even forced to board the team bus.

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