MANCHESTER City will aim to create their own bit of history by beating Everton at Eastlands tonight – but for Aleksandar Kolarov it will just be another minor milestone compared to what life as a kid was like.

City will secure top spot on Christmas Day if they can overcome David Moyes’ men and it is something the Blues have not experienced since the new league was formed in 1992.

It shows just how far the Blues have come in the two-and-a-half years since they were taken over by Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group.

For Kolarov though, it would be a small step in a journey that has taken him from the streets of war-torn Serbia to Premier League riches.

“Players from Serbia are very hungry to work,” he said.

“We all want to do something because every one of us has some story in their life.”

Kolarov’s story involves dodging bombs dropped during a three-month NATO raid on “strategic” targets, which claimed civilian casualties.

“I don’t have nightmares but I remember everything,” he said. “You just want to play football but you can’t because there are bombs in the city.

“You have fear for something. Then every day is the same. Bombs fell near my house.

“The windows blew in. There was a military airport near my house so that was a target.

“They bombed bridges, everything.

“There were concerts on the bridges. But I didn’t go. I played football.”