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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Mark Jones

Edin Dzeko wins battle of golden oldies as Premier League myth busted on biggest stage

Is there life after the Premier League? There isn't only life, there might be a Champions League final.

It is now eight years since Edin Dzeko last kicked a ball for Manchester City, for whom he scored a mightily impressive 72 goals in 189 games during the formative years of the Sheikh Mansour era, all while never quite being the player that City managers seemed to want in the team.

The Bosnian was an unused substitute when City ended their 35-year trophy drought by beating Stoke City in the 2011 FA Cup final, and then he was on the bench on that fateful day a year later when Sergio Aguero secured the Premier League with that late, late winner against QPR.

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