Dear Mr Dyke,

I don’t know if uniting the lower leagues and non-leagues of English football against the FA was your target but I can assure you it’s been well and truly achieved. Social media is a powerful tool and when #SayNoToLeague3 was trending across the country on Twitter the alarm bells must have been ringing.

Less than a week ago you, the FA chairman, released the 80-page England Commission Report as a means of improving the national team and to increase the current number of 66 English players playing regularly in the Premier League to 90 by 2022.

That’s all well and good but your ingenious idea includes an introduction of a B League, aptly named League 3, which would consist of 10 Premier League B teams and 10 Conference clubs that would effectively sit as tier five of the English football pyramid between League 2 and the Conference Premier.

You’ve also called for a reform of the work permits for players coming in from abroad as well as creating new strategic loan partnerships between clubs. 

The latter have their own drawbacks but it’s the plan for of a new B league to potentially be introduced for the 2015/16 season that has rightly caused uproar below the Premier League and Championship.

In terms of progression, it seems like this would only benefit English players and the national team but what about the clubs and individuals who aspire to reach those levels? You’ve forgotten and completely disregarded the true backbone of our football identity that has envious glances from rival countries across Europe.

Should this questionable solution come into effect, the possibility of seeing another Yeovil Town, Crawley Town and Fleetwood Town rise through the non-league system and consolidate themselves in the professional game would be a distant dream. 

To delve further into the proposal, 10 Premier League B teams would feature in the League 3 with promotion possible but only up to the point of League 1 and must always be at least one league below their parent club.

There seems to be a consensus that because the likes of Spain and Germany have B teams, then we must follow suit. If it isn’t replicating France’s Clairefontaine national football centre then it’s demanding Spain’s tiki-taka football.

You believe that B teams in other countries are successful but how many years of disappointment and frustration did Spain have of not progressing to the latter stages of World Cups and European Championships while they had B teams?

While the whole nation would love to have more English players in the Premier League to then reinforce a stronger England national team, don’t aim to achieve that at the expense of lower-league football. 

The truth of the matter is that there will be fans below the Premier League that support their clubs the same, if not more, than the national team. 

What I find worrying and disrespectful from a non-league standpoint, is that the competition that would effectively become disrupted and damaged has not been consulted. The Football Conference released a statement saying that out of the 650 people across the game you have spoken with, they are not one of them.

For someone such as yourself, a former chairman of Brentford, to have made recommendations that could restrict them from progressing forward as a club because an Arsenal or Liverpool B team is blocking their promotion is concerning.

One Premier League player currently playing in the under-21 league had three games at non-league level and came to the conclusion that under-21 football at his club is pointless.

He said playing against a man who has to put food on the table for his family is no joke.

And his brother plays non-league football. He challenges you to bring any under-21 Premier League side to a John Still promotion-winning side and see how many people surivive. He reminds you that his Luton side beat Arsenal 7-0. Do you accept?

RAVIT ANAND