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On the night, it didnt seem too alarmist or over the top to think his entire career was in jeopardy. It was the angle at which Zlatan Ibrahimovics leg bent, the way his entire body seemed to vibrate when he hit the deck and the crowds sense of foreboding as this big, powerful man stayed down. Everyone knew the likely diagnosis: ruptured knee ligaments, and that it was the injury every footballer feared the most, especially one who was 18 years into his career.

As it turned out, more fool us for underestimating the man wearing Manchester Uniteds No 9 shirt on that April evening at Old Trafford in 2017.

Ibrahimovic was not the kind of guy, we ought to have remembered, who would be defeated by a career-threatening injury. He was the kind of guywho wouldnail the rehab, attempt a flying bicycle kick in the first minute of his comeback match and have the surgeons in Pittsburgh wanting to use him for medical research.

He would go on to score 53...

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