South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

My sincerest appreciation to the people still reading this thing. Even more sincere appreciation for all those who have done nice things for...

A long time ago now, it didn't used to be this way - but nowadays Football Victoria does a consistently excellent job of getting its fix...

On Sunday arvo I heard what were then unconfirmed rumours about South's senior men playing a friendly away at Churchill Reserve against ...

To begin with, how we got here. While everything strictly local football was cancelled several months ago, Football Victoria decided to pers...

Out As the senior men's season has finally come to an end - the senior women's team season persists in their state cup tournament - ...

Player of the year: Henry Hore. He did some nice things. More impressively, he managed to escape this hellhole.  Under 21 player of the yea...

As it turns out, just about every thought I had about Friday night's game, I already had in 2017 , to the extent that I'm actually a...

Pre-season 2022 (or what some of you are calling FFA Cup 2021) rolls on. The club has signed a new keeper, one Javier Diaz Lopez of Bentleig...

Friday November 12th. More specific details yet pending, because of, you know, *waves hands with half-exaggerated exasperation*  everything ...

So the news came in late on Friday afternoon: South had successfully blocked Western United from using Lakeside for the upcoming A-League se...

It was being talked about around the traps, and now it has officially happened - South Melbourne midfielder Henry Hore has joined Brisbane R...

I'm not sure if they did a coin toss for who got to go first on the night, but it was our own president who was first cab off the rank. ...

Edit: Damn you to hell South Melbourne board, make me write things for the first time in months and then you post this update, lol. Near eve...

Back in 2016 we won our tenth state league title. I wrote about the experience here , but one thing I had forgotten to add to that piece w...

Ordinarily I'd apologise for the long silence, but frankly there is nothing to apologise for. Nothing was happening until Friday afterno...

Here's a lighthearted diversion to kick off the week. Around early June, former Raith Rovers striker and now Scottish radio football pun...

Another day, another week, another round postponed. But no sooking today, because we have a bit of a treat.  As regular readers will know, I...

This is no way to live. Yes, there's a pandemic on, and we're in and out of lockdowns, and that sucks. But along with that, watching...

So more covid cases in the community, and we're locked down again for who knows how long. I assume it's safe to say that there'l...

So last week soccer came back and what did we see? A competent performance I suppose from our end, and many of the same problems also. But 2...