One of the great recurring themes of British Football happened the other day. Once every couple of years one of the Managers of the “Big Six” clubs sticks his head above the parapet and says something about wanting to have their reserve sides in the football leagues. The most recent exponent of this idea was Andre Villas Boas who said we should follow the model in Spain and have reserve teams playing in their equivalent of the championship: “What happens in Barcelona is a good ....