In fact, only four Manchester City players could say that - Joe Corrigan, Ederson, Claudio Bravo… and the man behind that quote, Kyle Walker!

Among Walker’s remarkable and long list of achievements during his time with the Blues – a clean sheet at the iconic Italian stadium is surely his most unusual entry.

With it, he joined a relatively short but cult role call of outfield players that have been called upon to take over in an emergency. A list that includes City stars such as Alan Oakes, Mike Doyle, Tommy Booth, Niall Quinn and Nigel Gleghorn over the last 60 years.

It was on November 6 2019 that Walker donned the gloves for our group stage with Atalanta with nine minutes remaining and saw out a 1-1 draw.

After winning our opening three games of the 2018/19 Champions League, we were on top against the Italian side with Raheem Sterling giving us the lead which could have doubled from the penalty spot, but Gabriel Jesus’ effort drifted wide.

With a crucial clash against Liverpool at the weekend and a slight knock, Ederson was replaced at half-time as a precaution and Claudio Bravo took over.

However, the Chilean had a difficult time, conceding a header from Mario Pasalic before seeing red when he raced out of his box and caught Josip Illic.

Cue a six-minute discussion about who would take over with Walker half-volunteering and goalkeeping coach Xabi Mancisidor suggesting he was the right man for the job.

He was correct, just about.

From the free-kick resulting from Bravo’s foul, Ruslan Malinovskyi whipped a shot past the wall which Walker stopped and then grabbed at the second attempt to a huge roar from the City fans.

City did their best to protect him and run down the clock and Walker joined in with a simple catch followed by a spectacularly extravagant fall to the floor, clutching the ball.

“I’m always giving the goalkeepers stick when I’m out there, saying you should be catching those ones, so it was a toss-up between me and John [Stones] who was on the bench to who was going to come on,” he recalled.

“It was ‘who is the dumbest between Kyle and John?’ We’re going to pick Kyle today!

“Luckily enough I did okay, I wasn’t too happy with my save, I should have caught it but I kept the ball out of the net and I’ve been in teams where players have fumbled them into the back of the net. It’s a lonely place back there!”

In fact, with City attacking the other end of the pitch, he wanted to join in, racing to the halfway line before remembering his new position and returning to his own box.

Pep Guardiola and Fernandinho were among those to praise his bravery after the match and his cult status as a potential goalkeeper was further enhanced on the flight back to Manchester when after landing, an object fell out of the plane’s overhead locker and Walker caught it before it hit the floor.

Certainly Ederson sees something in him: “In the game where he went to play as goalkeeper, he showed a lot of potential!” he remarked.

While it wasn’t the first time that an outfield player has been called upon as an emergency goalkeeper for City, it may well be the last.

With a reserve goalkeeper on the bench, sometimes two, and the opportunity to make five changes, it would take a bizarre set of circumstances such as those in Milan for it to happen again.

Before Walker’s heroics, the previous occasion we needed an emergency goalkeeper was nearly three decades earlier and that time there was no debate about who would take over the gloves.

Niall Quinn, was in outstanding form for City in the 1990/91 season, scoring 22 goals in all competitions as Peter Reid’s side finished the season fifth in Division One.

The Republic of Ireland striker had gone into the campaign on the back of a memorable Italia ‘90 when the country reached the World Cup for the first time in their history.

Quinn scored the equaliser in the draw with the Netherlands that saw Ireland reach the knockout stages where they went on to reach the quarter-finals before a 1-0 defeat to hosts Italy.

Then-boss Jack Charlton built his success on a remarkable togetherness in the squad where they were ready to pull their sleeves up and do whatever was required.

With a shortage of players to choose from, incredibly Quinn was picked as the third-choice keeper for the tournament, although he was never needed.

But he was in April 1991 when City faced Derby County at Maine Road with the Rams desperate for a win to avoid relegation.

Everything was going according to plan for the Blues with Quinn volleying us ahead with a lovely left-foot strike from the edge of the box but there was a twist midway through the first half.

Derby striker Dean Saunders raced clear, taking the ball around Tony Coton, who could only bring him down, receiving a red card as well as giving away a penalty.

A seething Coton threw his gloves at the referee, before Quinn picked them up and took his shirt off him with the new number one feeling confident in the role.

Welsh international Saunders was one of the hottest young strikers in the league at the time, netting 17 goals for rock-bottom Derby, but City striker Adrian Heath warned him to be careful, telling him he’d seen Quinn save plenty of penalties in training.

“I’d played Gaelic football quite a lot, using my hands and gone in goal during training, trying to save penalties, so it wasn’t such a big deal for me,” Quinn said.

“I knew what I was going to do and felt he was going to play it where he did. I guessed right and it goes out for a corner.

“I just enjoyed myself for the rest of the game and had a bit of fun. I don’t know why, I wasn’t nervous, I just took to it.”

He got a huge roar from the Maine Road crowd when he made the miraculous save, diving low to his left to keep out Saunders’s spot-kick, and an even bigger one from the following corner as he came off his line to collect the cross.

Playing Gaelic Football and hurling growing up in south Dublin, Quinn was a natural at using his hands as well as his feet.

Indeed on a tour to Australia, he was given two contract offers to play Aussie Rules Football, but thankfully he chose soccer and spent six-and-a-half seasons at Maine Road making 244 appearances.

City went on to win that day 2-1 with David White adding a second before Quinn was eventually beaten by a Mick Harford header, but the result relegated Derby.

While he isn’t warmly welcomed back in the East Midlands, that match is remembered fondly by Blues as an astonishing day.

“I didn’t really understand the significance of it until afterwards,” he said. “My wife Gillian didn’t come to that game and when I came home she said ‘how did you get on?’

“I said ‘we won and I scored’ and she said ‘oh great’. Then I said ‘And I saved a penalty’ and she said ‘you what? I don’t believe you!’

“Football wasn’t covered as it is now so it wasn’t on TV that night so I could verify it!

“I didn’t understand it was significant at the time, but now I look back and I’m half-proud of it and it’s nice to talk about.”