South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

Thank you to everyone who still reads South of the Border fifteen years into its journey. It's not as good as it used to be, I know that...

Things got to the stage where people would expect South of the Border to post on all sorts of matters regarding Australian soccer, however t...

Let's try make some sense out of this. OK, so there were going to be unavoidable issues of ground availability regarding Lakeside and it...

Hall of Fame news At a function held just prior to the recent Matildas vs Sweden match, Ange Postecoglou and Ted Smith were inducted into th...

This blog's not dead yet, which might yet be considered a virtue. Goodbye   The first farewells so far this off-season have been announc...

Player of the year: Max Mikkola. South and non-South media people agreed upon Javier Diaz Lopez. Coach agreed. Even I agreed until this mor...

What a letdown, and yet... I almost expected it. I think many f us did, even if half of that would have been setting up excuses for any poss...

This Federation! This competition! Every week there's something new. In especially good weeks, you may get several bits of nonsense all ...

Your reporter could have purchased a ticket to the big AFL game that day, but instead did what he almost always does in such situations, and...

We said we weren't going to bring this up again, but our win against Dandy City did see us finish as runner-up in the 2021 Bespoke Cup. ...

Thank goodness we've got the week off, otherwise this crap would have come out after the next game. It starts off bad One of those days,...

Just a short one this week because I'm back in what by my standards would be considered gainful employment, and time is no longer my fri...

The most important news must come first. So this "painting" the grandstand business, which has been going on for quite some time n...