South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Fear and loathing are for the other 364 days of the year. Today is reserved for thanking the following people: The club, especially those ...

Graham Reilly's 2004 novel Sweet Time is a nostalgic look at the birth of a soccer club, and the community which created it, as an as...

This was sourced from Australian soccer historian and Hellas fan Damian Smith. Two things about this image. Firstly, I've been waiting...

Peter Goldsworthy is one of Australia's better known writers of literary fiction and poetry, as well as being one of its more lauded exp...

I found a small bunch of these during my social club clean out a few years back. Not being there on the team of the century night, I assum...

So FFA had decided to do some old fashioned box ticking public consultation about the future of the Australian game. Part of that includes a...

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...