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“Who’s the one player in the Manchester City squad to have previously won the Champions League?”

The answer to this question should produce, at the very least, a wry smile on the face of Liverpool supporters.

Pep Guardiola might have won the European Cup twice as a manager with Barcelona but it’s now 11 years since he last ruled Europe.

Brought to the Etihad to lead City to a first Champions League title, last year’s final defeat is the closest they have come.

For all the millions they have spent in trying to conquer Europe, only one member of their playing squad possesses a winner’s medal.

And he was signed initially on loan before joining on a free transfer.

The answer is, of course, former Liverpool goalkeeper Scott Carson.

Now 36, the shot-stopper was on the bench for the Reds when they famously beat AC Milan on penalties to win the Champions League in 2005.

Signing from Leeds United that January, the then 19-year-old was making only his third appearance for Liverpool when handed his Champions League debut by Rafa Benitez in the quarter-finals in April 2005.

Coming against the mighty Juventus, Carson found himself facing shots from the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alessandro Del Piero, David Trezeguet and Pavel Nedevd as he helped a Reds side containing the likes of Anthony Le Tallec, Igor Biscan, Djimi Traore and Antonio Nunez to an unlikely 2-1 win on their road to Istanbul.

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