At the risk of sounding too local or parochial, what is the sense in separating Windsor & Eton from Slough and marginally less so from Burnham and Beaconsfield SYCOB?

Don’t they realise that aside from Windsor & Eton’s away game at Truro, Windsor’s home game with Slough last season attracted one of the biggest crowds of the season in the whole of the Southern League Division 1 South & West?

Well of course I already know the answer to this - which is that it is very unlikely it was ever a consideration. In their defence of course it must be the devil’s own job to keep all of the teams entirely happy in any reorganisation. That’s not my issue. My issue is simply this:

Why were we not consulted?

And I don’t mean that I have some unrealistic expectation that The F.A. would set up a meeting with every team potentially affected by a reorganisation to find out what their issues and sensitivities would be, but it wouldn’t be that difficult to write to each club asking them if there was anything that they would like The F.A. to consider as part of any reorganisation strategy. To my certain knowledge this just hasn’t happened.

Which brings me in a vaguely connected way to the guerrilla style campaign that appears on the Slough Observer web site to rename Windsor Lower Slough: http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2009/05/29/38841-will-windsor-soon-become-lower-slough/

I have an alternative suggestion for former Slough Council Leader Cllr Richard Stokes; why not rename Slough Upper Windsor? That way the somewhat unfair reputation of Slough immortalised in the late Sir John Betjeman’s poem Slough, ‘Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough ...’ could be banished from our consciousness for good...

This in turn would of course require a hasty rewriting of the same poem. Perhaps it could be renamed Soho Square?

‘Come Friendly bombs and fall on Soho Square’

In light of the aforementioned league reorganisation it’s surely not entirely without merit?

Kevin Stott
Vice Chairman
Windsor & Eton F.C.