South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Some of the things that happened in November. I'm reliably told that when we do it, it's called recruiting, not poaching. Bonel ...

In a forthcoming post about everything (well almost everything) that had happened during November, I was going to ask the question 'WHER...

David Winner's  Brilliant Orange , an idiosyncratic look at Dutch football and its culture, is one of the more unusual soccer books I ha...

I was going to post this some time ago, but I wanted to get a few things checked out first. MFootball writer Donald Sutherland put this up o...

Tom Pollock, Swinburne media student and MFootball/Melbourne Knights media man about town, recently interviewed a bunch of the usual suspect...

This post is tinged with both sadness and also a bit of hope. I have lived in the same house for something like 27 years, and now it's o...

I wasn't going to do anything for the 10th anniversary of Johnny Warren's death - it had both not occurred to me to do so, and neith...

The club has an online survey running at the moment, asking about the general supporter experience. Please do take the time to answer the q...

Back in July of this year, I put up a post celebrating the Hellas headband , a wonderful piece of South Melbourne Hellas merchandise histo...

This post is a bit of a grab all of a range of different concerns floating around, as well some news, in the middle of trying to avoid havin...

This arfetact was one of several images uploaded recently by Nick Vertsonis on Twitter, and which I'll be uploading one by one in due ...

Sometimes you can write an essay on an issue, hoping to get people across to your point of view using the age old arts of rhetoric and rea...

Just in case you've missed it on its various Facebook and Twitter incarnations, Joe Gorman has recently written an excellent piece on Mi...

2014 is not only ten years since we nearly went kaput, but it's also twenty years tomorrow since we played our last game at Middle Park....

Towards the beginning of the year, or maybe some time in March, a friend of a friend's grandfather had died, and thus a discounted gener...

This is truly one of the more bizarre Australian soccer publications I've ever seen. The short version is that it's a fanzine crea...

There were many fine efforts this year, and many memorably moments. This awards ceremony fits into neither of those categories. Player of ...

Admittedly, in a week where I could have pulled out several thematically appropriate artefacts for the purposes of reminiscence, I've de...

Last night Milos Lujic picked up the FFV Gold Medal for the NPL's player of the year award. The most recent South player before him to w...

The club sandwich at the Limerick Arms is a joke. Scott Tunbridge scored the winner against us ten years down the line from his South stint....