Book Club: Kicking Back – Nedum Onuoha
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest isn’t afraid to speak his mind and is deeply analytical about the world of football. Former Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers defender Nedum Onuoha joins Kate and Jim to reflect on his new book, Kicking Back!
With fascinating insight, Nedum pulls back the curtain on dressing room culture and some of its more sinister, insular habits, and discusses why he found the sport to be so resistant to change. Plus, why he fell out with Roberto Mancini, the worst training session he ever saw, and responds to some recent suggestions that QPR threw in the towel against Manchester City on * that * final day in 2012!
Nedum's book is now available to order in paperback here! Find us on socials @footballramble.
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| 0:00.0 | There is one scored for the under-21s, and I genuinely don't remember it. |
| 0:05.0 | I've got as a picture in the middle of the book from when I scored in the semi-final, |
| 0:09.0 | for England, I have no idea what happened. |
| 0:11.0 | The thing I remember the most from it, from that game, was the fact that we went to penalties. |
| 0:15.0 | And I was concerned I'd have to take one. |
| 0:17.0 | And the fate of the Universe somewhere showed us it was not what we want when it's a penalty. |
| 0:20.0 | Getting it back on Halberd. |
| 0:22.0 | Now Morrison. |
| 0:24.0 | Carol. |
| 0:26.0 | A Noah! |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the Book Club on Football Rumble Presents. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Kate Mason. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Jim Campbell. |
| 0:36.0 | And today we're joined by one of the most thoughtful new voices in the game. |
| 0:40.0 | A recently retired defender with an eye for a girl who's career bridged the Old Manchester City and the New. |
| 0:46.0 | A city fan who was born up a few minutes away from where the Etihad would be built just over a decade later. |
| 0:52.0 | The son of an engineer, dad, and a microbiologist's mom with a doctorate, |
| 0:57.0 | Nedim Anurha was always expected to excel academically. |
| 1:01.0 | And his brilliance as a footballer was never going to stop him from taking education seriously, |
| 1:05.0 | making him one of the very few male elite footballers who can boast straight A's at A level. |
| 1:11.0 | Not that Nedim finds showing off natural. |
| 1:13.0 | This is wild. |
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