The six years of wrangling between the town’s football club and the Crown Estate to establish a decent length of lease for the club’s Stag Meadow ground continues to grind inexorably on, leaving the club’s voluntary staff, manager, players and supporters in limbo, let alone the local community who must wonder why the hell it’s not been resolved. Everyone knows the club must pay ground rent to the Crown Estate landlords.

Everyone also knows the income from the telecom companies for having their masts on our floodlight pylons was shared equally with the Crown Estate.

The Crown Estate were therefore receiving an estimated £20,000 a year simply for agreeing to this arrangement. It’s difficult to establish exactly what the current contract is with the telecom companies, but suffice to say the Crown Estate are now receiving all the income, and I assume they have been since the former Windsor & Eton FC folded in 2011, and the new club was born.

That’s an enormous sum for the club to lose, but an almost insignificant sum for the mighty Crown Estate to gain. Both parties want the club to continue at Stag Meadow.

It’s time this was resolved amicably and with honour by both parties. The club have built a young side full of local talent who want to wear the shirt and represent the town. Visiting clubs and county FA officials admire the way the club is run, what a wonderful location Stag Meadow is, and regularly ask us to host major cup finals.

Our pitch has won a National Award in the past three years. However, the infrastructure requires increasing maintenance and it is unreasonable to expect this to be funded by the Founding Director alone.

Can I propose the Crown Estate grant the club the desired 25 year lease to enable them to apply for grants and other funding, re-apply the 50/50 split of telecom income, pay the club its share of the telecom income (less the owed rent of course) for the past six years, and that both parties sign the paperwork in a blaze of publicity that proves everyone is working towards an even brighter future for the town’s major sport ambassadors. In reality, it’s a small commitment from the Crown Estate, but one that will gain them a great level of respect (this is Royal Windsor, after all), not least from the youngsters who wear the club’s unique shirt – and therefore represent both the club and the town. The town and the club both need an ever-evolving and progressive future.

Ian Lucas, Eton Wick