Ok now I think it is perfect ... http://www.goalchat.com Btw .... how can i make gif transparent ?? ... png renders so bad in IE
I can't read the name of your forum in the banner, had to look at the address to know where I was. I think you should move the bottom section to the top. It may not be the focus of your site, but it is a big part. It looks more friendly if people can see it when they load the page. At the same time, I think the stuff for this year's World Cup should move down. That sections isn't always going to be there. And if it is, then I'd still say to move it down because other soccer things are more broad than this one (albeit very large) event. The number of users/topics/posts ratio is good. I actually look at that when I find a forum. For smaller ones like yours I don't want to see something like 1 or 2 posts posts per user. Larger ones follow different rules. If I was a soccer person I'd consider it. If nothing else I'd join and try to make it better.
babyboy : I use paint shop pro ... made banner in png but I cannot save it as gif with transparent background ... It looks silly in IE now
It looks really nice, if I was looking for a soccer forum this would be it. As someone else mentioned the text on the banner is a bit hard to read. I would make only some of the letters contain the soccer balls.
I like the site. I am not a soccer fan myself, but I must say the format and the thread categories have been organised very well. The only thing you need to "urgently" look at is the logo. It is impossible to read GoalChat in the logo. It looked more like: coahckat.gom. Apart from that, it's all good!