QPR match programmes 'kept me sane', says Vietnam veteran

[TomSea]

QPR, Soccer club in England, football that is.

QPR match programmes 'kept me sane', says Vietnam veteran
By Stuart Birch
BBC Radio 5 Live


Nils Guy holding QPR programmes in Vietnam

In 1969, an unlikely friendship formed between a US soldier fighting in the Vietnam War and an 11-year-old boy in Slough, through a love of football club Queens Park Rangers (QPR).

Nils Guy was 22 when he was called up for military service with orders overseas in Vietnam.

When on active duty, he wrote a letter which was published in the QPR matchday programme, asking if anyone would be interested in sending him clippings on how his club was doing.


The letter sent by Nils Guy to QPR, in which he explains he's serving in Vietnam

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@CatherineofAragon   I thought you use to have a QPR quote by your avatar.

@dfwgator   A big football fan, piinging.

[dfwgator]

At least it wasn't Arsenal.

[dfwgator]

Looks like for the 1969 season, QPR was relegated to the 2nd Division.  They were very loyal fans, I must say.

[Silver Pines]

QPR, Soccer club in England, football that is.

@CatherineofAragon   I thought you use to have a QPR quote by your avatar.

@TomSea, thanks for the ping.  That quote was "move fast, fight dirty", which is a motto of the (modern) Queen's York Rangers, a British special forces military unit established during the Revolutionary War and now based in Canada.  My avatar is their commander and later founder of Toronto.

It's easy to get them confused with the QPR.