Hi Riverwire and welcome to the forums.
Just had a quick look at the site and I'm not much of a soccer (or is that football or footie?) fan, but the site itself is quite nice. The layout is soothing and easy on the eyes.
One thing that I'm confused about is whether it's a blog or not. It has a blog feel, but isn't quite as easy to follow. The news feed at the bottom of the page also detracts from it -- one way to bump it up a notch would be to increase the font size and blend it more consistently with the rest of the page. State that it's a news feed being pulled from various other sites, but still make it seem as though it belongs on your site.
Also, you may want to put a predominant homepage link on the forums. Right now, once you're in the forums...it's not very obvious how to get back out.
Hope that helps and nice job,
~ Teli
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