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Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to be the laughing stock of the whole stadium? Trailing at the break, the QPR players regrouped in the dressing room ahead of an unexpectedly thrilling second half. The place was wild. It was chaotic. I think of the excitement of the fans and my teammates. Onuoha had joined City as a nine-year-old in and made his debut eight years later, still only at the age of The club had only recently been promoted back to the Premier League, and although he was making good progress, he never imagined his own promotion would come so soon.

I played well. We all played well. It was a big game — there were six or seven thousand people there watching it. We won that and then the next day I get a call from the kitman, Les Chapman, asking me what number I want. I was blown away. He was soon a regular under Kevin Keegan, and then Stuart Pearce.

This was beyond normal investment, to the point where they would do whatever they wanted. That was a big, big change. To be part of that the standards had to be raised.

The expectations are so much higher. The investment into the club turned it into a place where the business is all about winning games. The mentality completely flipped and they started to bring in players who had that mentality. Proven winners who would ultimately take the club to a point where they were consistently winning leagues and competing for all the trophies, in Europe not just in England.

Billions were poured into the club and it was completely transformed. Shortly after returning to Manchester City, he found himself inadvertently caught in the centre of a controversy as City chief executive Garry Cook resigned from his position after appearing to accidentally send an email to Onuoha's mother and agent, Dr Anthonia Onuoha, mocking the cancer which eventually caused her death in November Onuoha immediately became a regular at QPR, but there was trouble behind the scenes at the club as a squad of highly-paid players struggled to pull in the right direction together.

Onuoha was part of the squad which won promotion back up to the Premier League at the first attempt. A regular for QPR over the next three seasons in the Championship, Onuoha stayed loyal to the club despite reported interest from Sunderland, who were in the Premier League at the time. He featured regularly for his new club during the season. Notably, he was involved in an altercation with Los Angeles Galaxy's Zlatan Ibrahimovic , one of the most famous strikers in world football.

A lot of people are scared of him - but he is just a mere mortal," Onuoha said of Ibrahimovic, who he accused of threatening to hurt him and who celebrated a goal in Onuoha's face. The confrontation spilled over into the dressing room when Ibrahimovic came over to shake hands in what the Swedish international claimed was a sporting gesture, but Onuoha viewed it as further provocation.

Onuoha studied part-time while playing to earn a degree in accountancy at Manchester Metropolitan University, although he has been quoted as saying that he did not enjoy his studies. Onuoha has revealed that he had a strict upbringing and was raised in a manner that he felt honoured his Nigerian roots. His mother ensured that he focused on education instead of only looking at football. Agonising over Aberdeen? Yearning for Yeovil? Our database is crammed with every football club you could possibly wish for.

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