|
FOREWORD AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
by Kenneth Westerberg
As a long-standing fan of the
R's, and being statistics mad, I've kept records of QPR since the late 1970īs.
In my opinion, a fan should be able know something about the history and past
players of the team you support. Therefore, I also think that any information
about the history really belong to the supporters.
Certain persons deserve to
receive credit for inspiring and helping me over the years. I have great
admiration for the work these persons have done in promoting knowledge about QPR
history either in the QPR official match programmes or through their books.
The late Tony Pullein
(for his series "A to Z of QPR" in the mid-1980's), Mark Shaoul (The
History of QPR, 1990), Tony Williamson (Images of Sport - QPR, 2000) and
John Marks (Heroes In Hoops - QPR Who's Who, 2003).
Furthermore, two persons
deserve a special mention, both of whom I've corresponded with on and off over
the course of many years.
I'm especially indebted to
Gordon Macey for his kind permission to use information from his books
"Queen's Park Rangers - A Complete Record" (1993), "The Definitive QPR" (1996)
and "The Official History of Queens Park Rangers" (1999). He also
very kindly provided me his latest line up statistics for the WW2 years which
are published for the very first time, courtesy of Gordon.
And I'm ever so grateful to
Derek Buxton, the QPR "Statistics Wizard". His series on QPR history in the
official match programmes during the 1970's and statistical articles over the
years were the original inspiration to all this. Without Derek my curiosity
towards QPR history might never have been awakened.
I'm also grateful to Derek for
his patience and kindness in answering all my numerous statistical questions and
providing additional information to me, not to mention all the jokes and laughs
over the years!
Finally, I want to thank Ron
Norris of QPRnet.com for making it possible for you to have access to my
files through the web site. Without his help these files would most likely have
remained in my computer only.
I also want to mention my
father, who attended the QPR vs. Carlisle match in April 1968 and started the
Westerberg family support of QPR and my wife for all her love and understanding
over the years.
The information and knowledge
of QPR history is today far more complete than I ever imagined years ago.
However, there is still information missing or sometimes it may be
contradictory. There are missing line-ups for parts of the 1939/40 and 1940/41
seasons. In many cases only the surname of a player is known, especially for
games played during the war years.
If anyone has additional
information to fill any of the gaps, I would be delighted to hear from you
through my email address below.
As long as gaps remain, the
search for new information will continue.
kenneth.westerberg@metso.com
A QPR fan since 1968
Official match programme subscriber since 1975
Rangers 'til I die |
