It’s something we get asked regularly here at Football in Berkshire, why do you cover Wallingford & Crowmarsh?
Not specifically the Oxfordshire side you understand, it could be Virginia Water, Eversley & California or perhaps even Tadley Calleva.
We have in the past tried to legitimise and justify it by saying things about each club as follows:
Virginia Water – well they’ve played home games over many years at Stag Meadow in Windsor, Arbour Park in Slough but are now at Chertsey Town with a view to one-day returning to a purpose built ground in Virginia Water, so that seems fair enough.
Eversley & California – the California part is in Berkshire even if the ground isn’t.
Yateley United – well that’s kind of next door to Eversley and we already cover them.
Tadley Calleva – the ground is in Berkshire and one of us lives just a few minutes away.
Wallingford & Crowmarsh – Wallingford was in Berkshire until 1974. See also Wantage Town, Abingdon United and Didcot Town – although you’ll probably not see a huge amount on the latter three unless someone would like to crack on with it.
Burnham – Wikipedia says ‘the village is nearly contiguous with west Slough’ so that’s good enough.
We could also add as mitigation: “Well there isn’t really anyone else covering them, so why not?” which, would seem to us anyway, fair enough.
Besides, it’s not like we’ve filed thousands of column inches either (which we’d really like to do).
The real reality of this whole situation and question though is based on the following sentence.. because we want to.
