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Nedum Onuoha

Kicking Back

Nedum Onuoha

Thursday, 21 March 2024

6:00pm

1 hour

Oxford University Mathematical Institute: Lecture Theatre 1

£7 - £13.50

BBC football pundit and former Manchester City and Queens Park Rangers footballer Nedum Onuoha talks about life on and off the pitch, including minority groups in football, how to approach the end of a professional sporting career and the importance of having an identity outside the game.

The event is being held in partnership with Oxford United Football Club, and the audience will include members of the club’s football academy and their families. In his autobiography, Kicking Back, Onuoha talks about some of those he played alongside and for, including Stuart Pearce , Sven-Göran Eriksson, Roberto Mancini and Harry Redknapp. He also gives a damning assessment of how football and society have failed the black community. Onuoha will speak for a short time and there will be an extended opportunity for questions and answers.

Onuoha played as a defender and made his debut for Manchester City at 17. He went on to play 400 professional games in the UK and United States. He was captain of QPR and of the England U21 team. He grew up in a poor part of Manchester after arriving from Nigeria at the age of five with his family. His parents made huge sacrifices to give Onuoha and his sisters a good education and he was unusual among his contemporaries in continuing to study for his A-Levels after his debut. He is now a regular analyst on BBC Radio 5 Live football commentaries and on BBC 1’s Football Focus and Match of the Day 2.

Oxford United Football Club has a proud history dating back to 1893. It has an English Football League One men’s team, a National League Southern Division women’s team and an academy. Its charitable arm, Oxford United in the Community, undertakes a huge amount of positive work throughout the city and county.

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University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Festival literary heritage partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Jim Mellon John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford United Football Club Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Oxford Brookes University OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders La Leccia Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society