I think Seun should seperate football from the sports thread. Football is something else that should be on its own.

See the example here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

i dont see any reason why it should be separated for as long as they are sports. what makes it different ?

Football on its own is more than a sport. Haven't you noticed the pattern here? It is consistent with the saying: there are only 2 activities in this world, football and the rest!

We normally add new forums based on demand. If we start to see a lot of posts on other sports apart from soccer then we'll know that it's time to create a thread dedicated to soccer and one for other sports. As things stand today, the Sports forum is basically a soccer forum with occasional athletics discussions and this helps the discussions outside soccer to receive more attention.