So I kind of took Uni's suggestion of adding a league table somewhere on the site and expanded on it. You should now see a little arrow thing near the top right of the forum index (or maybe the sidebar is open by default, it shouldn't be but whatever), and when you expand it the sidebar will show with a list of headlines from Michael's site, a list of headlines from Inter.it, the Serie A table, and a list of upcoming fixtures.
It's cookie-based, so if you leave it closed/open, it will remain closed/open next time you load the site, so if you don't want to be reminded of our craptastic league standing you don't have to see it (you can also minimize individual blocks within the sidebar). When closed, the site will look like normal, so for those that don't like it, just leave it closed.
The stuff is all custom code, and relies on external sites for the data, so there's a high likelihood that there will be some hiccups with it. I already know there will be some occasional weird encoding issues with the content from Michael's site. I tested it w/ FF/IE/Chrome, but if you notice any issues, let me know. I might or might not care.