South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Apparently the pitch is stuffed. Your correspondent was going to be at the Socceroos match regardless, some of you may have intended heading...

Only because it is an issue which won't die. From page 196 of Josef Vondra's 1979 work, Hellas Australia = Ellada Australia. Per...

A very dubious penalty got us out of jail last night. Kingston were the better team, and should have scored at least one more. Fernando was ...

Don't know much about this player to be honest - but wish him all the best nevertheless. Article from QPR site. Sky Sports article.

Hi, how you doing? It's been a while since I was last at your venue. Sure I was there on Wednesday evening to watch my South Melbourne p...

Word has come through that our Hellenic Cup schedule has been changed yet again. Rather than playing Kingston next Thursday, we are now play...

Normally, we here at South of the Border steer clear of A-League issues unless they have something vaguely to do with South. Not this time t...

Melbourne Heart are off to some sort of pointless Hawaiian invitational . And they've padded out their squad for this trip with an assor...

South kicks off its Hellenic Cup title defence on Sunday against Bentleigh Greens. Venue is Kingston City's The Grange, time is 5:30. I...

Inside the cage at Ralph Reserve, kick off at 6:45PM. Be there, and be square.

As rumoured among alert and/or bored members of our local soccer community, the Saudi national team will be using Lakeside for their prepara...

This blog links to us. Their description of their link to our site - What is this, Old Soccer? Does Ben Buckley know this kind of of subver...

Much the same format as last year. In the press release I was forwarded, there was no mention of whether our beloved A-League brethren would...

So, the news coming out of Lakeside is that experienced VPL goalkeeper Peter Gavalas - most recently of Bentleigh Greens - is training and h...

Been a little bit of adjustment since these first came out. Notably 3pm home kickoffs changed to 5pm... our round three home match against G...

At least that's what coach Gus Tsolakis in thinks in this article from FourFourTwo . Apart from the very occasional frappe (sweet with m...

Been a bit quiet recently on here. That's partly to do with the lack of news, which has been a league wide issue. Guess that's what ...

In last Thursday's Neos Kosmos, tucked away in the sports pages, there was an editorial cum letter from a Melbourne Heart fan, Dimitris ...

So bored during this extended off-season. There's things I could be doing I suppose, but instead I took up friend and once off contribut...