Nedum Onuoha refused to time-waste before Manchester City scored their famous title-winning goal in 2012 as he felt it would have been "disrespectful".
The former defender spent the first part of the 2011/12 campaign at boyhood club Manchester City before joining a struggling Queen Park Rangers' side in the January transfer window.
He would eventually help Mark Hughes' side avoid relegation by the narrowest of margins after Stoke held Bolton to a 2-2 draw on the final day.
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Manchester City, meanwhile, lifted their first league title thanks to a dramatic last-minute winner from Sergio Aguero.
QPR, who were down to ten men after Joey Barton was sent off, stayed up but some have raised questions over the result, including Wayne Rooney, who mentioned Djibril Cisse's reaction at full-time.
Now, more than a decade after the events in Manchester, former City defender Nedum Onuoha has made an "honest" admission about the game.
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Speaking to the FILTHYFELLAS podcast, the 37-year-old recalled Edin Dzeko's equaliser in the dying embers, as well as the throw-in that sparked a crucial City counter-attack.
"I'll be honest. True confessions. They won 3-2 and two of the goals were my fault," he said. "I'm gonna have to be completely honest about this. The game is whatever, it's going how it's going and somehow we're winning but we're down to 10 players because someone decided to get themselves sent off in the biggest game of the season.
"In the 92nd minute. I'm cooked. The rest of us are cooked. The corner comes in and they've made a lot of changes. I'm supposed to be marking [Edin] Dzeko. I tried to jump but I couldn't jump. Dzeko is top in the air. So he scores and it's 2-2 and I'm thinking, 'That was definitely my fault'."
Onuoha continued: "It then gets kicked out and I'm playing right back, so it's me to take the throw-in, but this is my first time going to play against City. I remember as a kid being in that stadium when it first opened, when City played Barcelona in a pre-season game. I remember looking down thinking, 'I'd love to play on that pitch one day'.
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"I remember going to Maine Road and loving that. And here I was, now playing against them, for the first time. I didn't know how to deal with it. I couldn't time waste. It felt disrespectful. So I ran to get the ball.
"When I got there, I was looking Jay Bothroyd straight in the face. I said to him, 'Go down the line' and I threw it down the line, but Jay never went. So now City have got the ball. And I'm running back thinking, 'Well, if they score, this is my fault.'
"I was thinking, 'Please come my side so I can try and do something' but it never came to my side.' At the other side I'm watching and it's like a horror movie. Then I see the ball go in. And I'm like, 'Oh my god'."
As mentioned earlier, Wayne Rooney has been critical about a number of moments from that game between Manchester City and QPR, including Paddy Kenny's display at the Etihad that day.
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"Paddy Kenny should have done better for a couple of the goals," Rooney told The Sun. "City get the second goal and QPR kick it straight back to them and that's never been questioned - I find that strange.
"Djibril Cisse celebrating after the game with the City players, but yes, listen, it's a historic moment in the Premier League so I'm sure that, if you are not involved as a Manchester United player, that's probably one of the greatest moments in the league."
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