straight to your inbox Benjani Mwaruwari has explained what it was like to become an 'instant hero' for Manchester City after scoring on his debut against Manchester United.
Before Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan took over the club a matter of months later, City completed the then big-money signing of Benjani for £4.68million in January 2008, after he had impressed in his first stint at Premier League rivals Portsmouth.
The Zimbabwe legend was thrown into the deep end of a Manchester derby on his debut for the Blues, but he delivered the goods as he flicked in a goal that transpired to be the winner - securing City's first win at Old Trafford for over three decades. “That is the kind of a game that you don’t forget until you die,” Benjani told.
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