I have to say that keeping managers in their real life countries (as best as we can) is a good thing. I think having cultural commonalities helps the league Forums stay lively and gives our leagues, where we expend most of our energy, more excitement as a result. I'm all for cultural diversity, and if we didn't also have active Global Forums I would probably think differently. It's not that I think having international leagues would mean league forums wouldn't be potentially active, and that they couldn't also be great, wonderful places for all managers to mix, I just think that the level of interaction is different. Also, keeping managers in their own countries helps make the NT formats work, etc. And if somebody really needs to be in an international league, he/she could be a Supporter and create/join an international Private League.
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