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first things first - don't use comic sans, unless it's a comic club site or similar
 
difficult with a bright yellow and red to work with tempting to use it a lot but better to use a fairly neutral palette with club-colour highlights.
 
for the news you could write a very short headline for each piece but it might simply end up being too repetitive (and too much work)
 
Sunday Reserves' brilliant match win
... blah blah blah
 
heavy drop shadow (by today's standards) doesn't help with a clean modern feel and avoid using defaulr link colour for text that isn't a link (results on left)
 
 
Sponsors: i know sponsors are of premier importance (about my limit for football puns ) but could the logos be a bit smaller?
 
anyway, i had a bash of doing a visual for a desktop/tablet version - not sure how it would work on mobile as to what order the columns are in - show all the sponsors first? or in the middle - a lot to ask to scroll through the sponsors before getting to the real content... unless your a sponsor of course
so my idea below - fonts are the free open sans (light, regular, bold, and the other Google free font Exo 2 for a techy/sporty look, or from font squirrel)
full images at http://gekkoweb.com/stuff/fc/farnborough-fc3.jpg and with menu expanded http://gekkoweb.com/stuff/fc/farnborough-fc3-hovermenu.jpg
 
 
 

you mean in photoshop??
 
make a new layer, fill it with a linear gradient and change the blending mode to e.g. overlay, screen, multiply, darken, etc (it's in the layers panel) and reduce the opacity as needed.