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Before we get to the story about the team who won their first Premier League match at the 16th attempt after an impromptu round of brandy kick-started a “lock-in” at the Shepherd’s Rest, Nedum Onuoha is casting his mind back to the doom and gloom that descended on Shepherd’s Bush.

Nine years ago, Queens Park Rangers were in Newcastle United territory now — propping up the Premier League without a win in 14 matches — and dealing with the negativity that accompanied every result, in particular the idea that they were on course to break a record nobody wants to break.

“We heard it and we saw it — you can’t avoid it,” Onuoha says. “It’s being thrown in your face. Obviously, we were QPR so it’s not like we were going to dominate the headlines regardless. But it’s like a subtext, essentially. It will get mentioned. It has to get mentioned. ‘Ah, it’s game 11 for QPR without a win. It’s game 12… it’s game 13 — they’re approaching the record’. And that’s the only thing that people knew about us.

“They didn’t know about how we were playing. They just knew that this team, which had invested in the summer, was failing. That was the talking point. ‘Oh, that’s another game without a win. And another game’. It’s similar to what happened to Sheffield United last season. And this is how crazy it is — I was rooting for them to keep going with their losses because I thought, ‘Please take that tag away from us’. It’s so bizarre. I don’t know Sheffield United or dislike them. I just didn’t want to be associated with that record.

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