Eze was without a club at 18 but eventually got his big break at QPR where he turned 'dour moments into magical ones'
At QPR Eze’s style earned him the nickname “Drunken Master” — coined by Hall who loves martial arts films — based on the film of the same name in which Jackie Chan is taught to fool fighters by pretending to be inebriated.
“I’m still waiting for him to blow up. I keep saying to him go and blow the world up ‘cause he can. When he plays well he’s the best player on the pitch.” Eze played under former QPR midfield favourite Gareth Ainsworth, but after five League Two games he was yet to score. To ease the pressure, the day before the next game, away to Cambridge United, Ainsworth took Eze to one side during training and told him he didn’t need to keep trying to stick the ball into the top corner.
Then-QPR manager Holloway handed Eze a place in the first team on his return. His assistant Bircham, who had worked withwhen he was in the club’s academy, told his boss Eze could go past players with more ease than Sterling.
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