Windsor and Eton boss David Mudge says there will be a football club in Windsor next season, despite the side being wound up last week.

The Royalists folded on Wednesday after the club were issued a winding-up order due to an unpaid £240,000 tax bill.

"We won't be known as Windsor & Eton because there's an issue with that but there will be football in the town next summer," Mudge told BBC Berkshire.

"So I can guarantee you, the people of Windsor will have a team to support."

Mudge's view is shared by former-director Kevin Stott, who said last week he was planning to establish a new club.

"It's been a horrendous week to be honest with you. We hope to pick it up and move on in some shape or form in the future," added Mudge.

"We are hoping the club will come back at level five or level six, which is a few divisions below the Southern league.

"It will come with lots of big personnel changes, even my job is in jeopardy because we don't actually know the funding we are going to have for the club and what level we'll be at."

The Royalists boss went on to say that years of neglect and mismanagement were to blame for the club's demise.

"I suppose in hindsight the club could've been run better and run tighter but these things happen.

"I've been here since last June and we cut the wage bill considerably last summer, it's just year after year of neglect and letting things go really.

"You need to run a club like a business, the years of benefactors have gone," he said.

"All the money is in the top end of the game and the bottom end of the game is being strangled."

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