South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Friday 8:30 PM Oakleigh Cannons (2nd) vs Dandenong Thunder (1st) Top of the table clash. Oakleigh is coming off a 1-2 away win at the Knigh...

Soccer growing in pre-WWI Melbourne. An interesting long piece from the Argus (29 June 1914), speaks to the popularity and growth of soccer...

Considering the outs we had, especially defensively, and the relative form of the two teams, I wasn't too optimistic about this one. But...

8:30 PM Friday May 25th - Hume City vs Green Gully Cavaliers Both teams are coming of 0-1 wins. Gully at Southern Stars, and Hume at Oaklei...

A few weeks ago I finally made it down to the Public Record Office in North Melbourne. It's like the more uptight sister to the State Li...

Every South loss hurts. Does this one hurt more than the others? I'd say yes, except the VPL era South is turning into a blur of disappo...

Bentleigh Greens v Northcote City Friday 8:15pm, 4 th v 8 th Tough one to pick. Really it shouldn’t be. Hmm. Decisions, decisions. O...

Check out this piece from Ian Syson, looking at a typical FFV Historical Committee meeting. I sport an atypical stern expression in there.

Fernando De Moraes has been selected to play for the Futsalroos in the the 2012 Asian Fustal Championships, to be held in the United Arab E...

In our recent match report on our victory over Hume City, there were some curious Preston related chants which made no sense to me. Wel...

How do you go about describing that kind of game? Perfect conditions, but a scrappy affair. A draw might have been a fairer result, but we...

Friday 11th May @ 8.30pm - Hume City (8th) vs South Melbourne (6th) Epping stadium. The coldest place in the known universe. Fucken gotta t...

Former South junior and now member of QPR's Centre of Excellence Peter Skapetis has a brief interview with OS Aussie. FAILURE IS NOT A...

That was pretty dispiriting stuff. Here's this week's rundown. Advice on Nutritional Supplements for Athletes Valium is probably ...

I’ve been so busy the last fortnight, I have lost track of the previous round’s results. Because I can't be fucked looking for them, the...

This is one of the more incredible blog posts I've seen for quite some time. Makes one wonder about the measurements at VPL grounds.

Watched my second and third games of cup football today, after having watched Moreland City go down 1-0 in extra time to Hume City yesterda...

Here's the club's presser on the matter .

No league action this week. Probably for the best after the last couple of weeks. Instead, this Sunday at the very special time of 12:30PM...

Ian Syson has a piece on the place of Australian soccer within the ANZAC tradition .