South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

I've been burnt by this increasingly frequent phenomenon before, but never quite like this.  With all home duties sorted, I decided to h...

Nothing much more to say other then that the performance in the first half was absolute rubbish. Against probably the most mediocre Heidelbe...

I alternate between despising how this team plays and yet still manages to grind out wins, and admiring with significant reservation how thi...

South Melbourne FC maintained their perfect start to the season with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Melbourne Knights on Monday night at Lakesid...

Bringing order to chaos, but at what cost? You know I'd almost forgotten that  we didn't go to Green Gully Reserve last year ? Rocki...

Another new season, and another year of supporting this club. Though my commitment and interest has wavered between extremes since my first ...

Well, I was going to miss the first ten minutes of the broadcast of the Greek Community Cup final, because of "errands". Then I go...

Disclaimer - a good chunk of what follows assumes that South Melbourne will be a successful applicant for a national second division. Well, ...

Last night, in front of people that matter, South Melbourne 4, Essendon Royals 1. Video highlights make it all look like a bit of kick and g...

This was the first chance I'd had this season to have an extended look at what our senior men's team has been doing. So far it's...

Did you go? I didn't.  Last Saturday arvo at Lakeside, our senior men drew 1-1 with South Australian side Campbelltown City. I don't...

The Greek Community Cup game against Heidelberg that was scheduled for tomorrow, is now scheduled for Sunday at 5:00 PM. Expect a youthful t...

So last Thursday in the Greek Community Cup we beat Altona East 3-0, and then on the Saturday we beat East Kew, also 3-0. Some highlights pa...

Friendlies you didn't know about Last Saturday morning our senior men played against North Geelong in Shepparton, winning 2-1, Jankovic ...

One friendly down Normally I'm falling over myself to tell you people about upcoming friendlies and such, but when it's a 6:30 PM Fr...

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...