All the evidence is fans don't want B Teams - they reduce attendances - so they aren't a solution to football's sustainability problem. Proposing B Teams only helps if PL teams are prepared to pay to have them. Which, of course, makes the EFL even more dependent on the PL.
B Teams have nothing to do with sustainability. They are about the wealthy abolishing smaller clubs so they can hoard young players. It's the football equivalent of suggesting that we could alleviate poverty by allowing the unemployed to sell their kidneys.
Have now read the piece and it's absolute horseshit. The author might see no problem with the replacement of real football clubs in the pyramid with B Teams, but his attempts at framing it as a matter of sustainability fail completely. He simply has no answer to this challenge... 
He sneers at small clubs, disparages some excellent owners who don't have the benefits of a sovereign wealth fund and seems unwilling to interrogate Man City's motives. It's as poorly written as it is ill-considered and the paywall is doing God's work.
Lovely to see the piece is getting dunked on like an arthritic basketball player. Splendid work, everyone.
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