South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Let me be blunt - 2019 sucked. I doubt that next year will be much better, but we'll see. Anyway, there are people to thank, so let'...

As tends to happen, my recollection of Sunday's events will be based less upon the order in which things happened, but more so via theme...

The folk at Heidelberg have unearthed some old footage of South Melbourne at Middle Park from the mid-1970s. They've posted a snippet on...

That the AGMs are on this Sunday. If you have not received any notification from the club on that front, you may want to get on to that, pro...

While we're waiting for something South Melbourne related to happen, this is just a post to note that I've set up a little blog that...

The annual general meeting for South Melbourne Hellas has been announced for Sunday, 22nd December, at 11:00am, in the social club. This wil...

AGM news No sign of a South Melbourne AGM on the horizon, although there's enough time yet to sneak one in before Christmas. Someone ...

Among Australian soccer history aficionados, Leopold Baumgartner's The Little Professor of Soccer holds   a special place as being th...

Mid-November mutterings to oneself No sign of a South Melbourne AGM on the horizon, although there's enough time yet to sneak one in ...

ABC journalist Trevor Thompson had previously written One Fantastic Goal , one of a slew of books that were commissioned (or were reprinte...

Our off-season recruiting does resemble is a case of pick your own cliche. Is it "everything old is new again" or "we'r...

This week's artefact pays tribute to two anniversaries, although I was more aware of one than the other when I started writing this pi...

All hail the mighty oracle that is South of the Border. Well, not really, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't deliberately seek to un...

With thanks to stuff loaned from the club, this is what I have added in the past little while in terms of South programs: Presentation ...

Jason Goldsmith's Surfing for England: Our Lost Socceroos, begins with the kind of question which keeps certain kinds of Australian so...

To keep the blog ticking over and just in case you missed it, Marcus Schroen won the Theo Marmaras Medal for our best player this year, much...

Sometime late in the 2019 season, I borrowed some match programs and other things off the club, and have gradually started scanning and uplo...

It's been just over a week since the season finished, and typically no one has given a rat's about who won the title, which is as it...

At the end of the 1979 National Soccer League season, South Melbourne Hellas experienced the ignominy of finishing in last place for the f...

2020 SMFC senior squad roster as of 21/09/2019 It's not really a surprise - I mean, I think we kinda all expected this to go the way it...