Quashie joined Premier League side Nottingham Forest for £ 2. 5 million at the start of the 1998 – 99 season but made only 18 appearances as Forest were comfortably relegated.

Curbishley explained that he had signed Quashie "... because he is an experienced player who will add competition to our central midfield positions [...] The competition for places is a factor that will be important to us as we fight to move up the table ..." Quashie made his debut against Fulham a few days later and went on to make eight appearances, none of them on the winning side, as West Ham battled against relegation.

Quashie made his league debut for ÍR on 12 May 2012 and scored the team's second goal in the 3 – 2 win against KA.

" A training ground injury prevented Quashie from making his debut against Liverpool on 22 January 2005 and he did not make his debut until the match against Everton on 6 February.

Quashie scored his first goal for MK Dons on 12 December in a 2 – 1 away win against Leyton Orient.

Although Quashie was a regular starter in the 2004 – 05 season and club captain, he had not been offered a new contract despite being out of contract at the end of the season and joined former Portsmouth manager, Harry Redknapp, at Southampton during the January 2005 transfer window.

Quashie became Alan Curbishley's second signing of the transfer window when he joined West Ham United on a three-and-a-half year contract for an initial fee of £ 1. 5 million, rising to £ 1. 75 million after West Ham successfully avoided relegation in the 2006 – 07 season.

However, Quashie remained a first choice player, making 25 appearances as Portsmouth claimed 13th place in the Premier League.

On 13 April 2012, Quashie joined 1. deild karla side Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur on a two-year contract as both a player and as assistant manager to Andri Marteinsson.

Quashie returned to his first professional club, Queens Park Rangers on 22 January 2010, stating ; " It's great to be back home, and I am delighted to be at a club that I love to pieces ".

Bergkamp himself came on as a second-half substitute and set up the winning Pirès goal moments after Nigel Quashie had levelled the scoreline.

* Quashie, Lesley.

Nigel Francis Quashie ( ; born 20 July 1978 ) is a British footballer who has played more than 300 games in the Football League.

Quashie was born in the London Borough of Southwark to a Ghanaian father and an English mother.

He became known to the Forest fans as " Quashie well-wide " due to the nature of his shots on goal.

Quashie joined Portsmouth in August 2000 for a fee worth up to £ 600, 000, signing a three-year contract.

Quashie joined Southampton for a fee of £ 2. 1 million in January 2005, signing a three-and-a-half year contract.

Despite relegation, Quashie said that he had no regrets over the move to Southampton as he had been unhappy with the way he had been treated at Portsmouth.

However, following Redknapp's departure and his replacement with George Burley, Quashie was allowed to leave Southampton in the January 2006 transfer window.

Quashie joined West Bromwich Albion in January 2006 for £ 1. 2 million, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract.

Quashie achieved the rare distinction of being relegated from the Premiership in two successive seasons.

Following relegation, Quashie was allowed to leave in the January 2007 transfer window as he expressed a wish to return to the Premier League and manager, Tony Mowbray, wanted to raise some revenue to bring in new players.

A persistent foot injury meant that Quashie did not play a single competitive match during 2007 – 08.

As Pope Martin V supported Sforza, Alfonso switched religious allegiance to the Aragonese antipope Benedict XIII.

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In 1942, commenting on journalist E. H. Carr's pro-Soviet views, Orwell stated: " all the appeasers, e. g. Professor E. H. Carr, have switched their allegiance from Hitler to Stalin.

As a consequence, the FDP switched allegiance to the CDU and Schmidt lost his parliamentary majority in 1982.

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It was because of this that Edward's former staunch ally Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as " The Kingmaker " switched his allegiance to the House of Lancaster.

However in 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Massylii, Masinissa, allied himself with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his allegiance to the Carthaginian side.

In 1932, many young republicans switched allegiance from the republican movement to Fianna Fáil.

He was succeeded by Han Fuju, who was loyal to the warlord Feng Yuxiang but later switched his allegiance to the Nanjing government headed by Chiang Kai-Shek.

The remaining loyal units switched allegiance the next day.

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Upon seizing power, he switched Egypt's allegiance to the Baghdad-based Abbasid Caliphate which adhered to Sunni Islam.

In 1183, Irbil too switched allegiance to the Ayyubids.

From 1761 to 1776 he exhibited at the Society of Artists, but in 1775 he switched his allegiance to the recently founded but already more prestigious Royal Academy.

After the Soviets broke with Barre in the late 1970s, he subsequently expelled all Soviet advisers, tore up his friendship treaty with the Soviet Union, and switched allegiance to the West.

The three ' castles of the Downs ' were initially held for Parliament, but the forces switched allegiance to support the Royalist cause.

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Amongst the retaliatory steps taken, Dawa switched their allegiance to Abu Al-Qassim Al-Khoei another leading scholar in Najaf.

Floris got rid of the Avesnes influence and switched allegiance to the Dampierres.

In 198, Lü Bu switched his allegiance to Yuan Shu again and attacked Liu Bei at Xiaopei.

However, in the face of the increasing Avar threat, the Sabirs, previously allied with Sassanid Persia, switched their allegiance to the Byzantines in 552 and invaded the Caucasus.

Initially a supporter of Mark Antony, Hirtius was successfully lobbied by Cicero ( who was a personal friend ) and switched his allegiance to the senatorial party.

In 2012, however, Andreesen switched his allegiance to the Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

Their allegiance switched repeatedly between the British and the Americans as power relations shifted between the nations.

Nobumoto sided with Oda Nobuhide in 1542, having switched his allegiance from the Imagawa family, but soon changing sides once more, to serve under the Matsudaira family.