Julian Speroni, born and raised in Buenos Aires, can recall the moment he understood life was different in south London to South America.
Dressed as Elvis at the Crystal Palace fancy dress Christmas party, he was forced to do a double-take when a team-mate in full Batman costume scaled a climbing wall at a kids' funfair.
'I knew then I'd have to adapt to a new culture,' he says, smiling at the memory. 'Particularly when they made me go 'uh-huh-huh' at the restaurant because I was Elvis.'
Along with Liverpool's Lucas Leiva and Swansea City's Angel Rangel, who have been at their Premier League clubs for a decade, 37-year-old Speroni has altered the perceptions of foreign players being here today, gone tomorrow.