Jonathan Woodgate talks about his time at Real Madrid

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'When you're in that state of mind you will try anything. Anything to get you back playing,' says Woodgate, who had to wait more than a year to make his debut for Real.

'The doctors had ran out of ideas. Then this old fella came in. I don't know how he got involved with the club.

'He got this pack of grass out and started boiling it in a pan. He put it on my leg and wrapped Clingfilm around it. I thought, 'What's happening here?'. It was weird. Obviously, it didn't work.

'But I get injured, I've learnt to accept that. I've been all over the world and tried everything. I've spent three months in Australia, three months in New York, I've been to Philadelphia, I've been to Leicester!'

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'I was then walking into breakfast through some swinging doors and Zinedine Zidane was walking towards me with a croissant and a coffee.

'I think he just thought, 'Who's this runner?'. He couldn't have thought I was a player, he probably thought I was a competition winner.

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