South of the Border - a South Melbourne Hellas blog

The situation is something like this.  Australian soccer record keeping, regardless of era or area, is generally garbage. I'm not even t...

So last Saturday Victoria played its first interstate match since 2009. Back then, Victoria's men's team defeated Northern New South...

- Oh, come on. You complain about them more than anyone. - Maybe! But I still love them. And I don't think you understand that... Spent ...

Let's get the important stuff out of the way first. Next games Four grand finals this week, in the following order: Saturday, September ...

Senior men At Lakeside, Friday night, 8pm, against Oakleigh. Winner gets through to the grand final. A South membership doesn't get you ...

Well, the weekend overtime work that I was apparently getting, that got cancelled. So it goes. Didn't even really think of heading out t...

Good first 20 minutes or so. Cue in the rack for the hour after that. Then everyone tuned into the Matildas' match, and a few idiots lik...

You want to win every game, but it's just not possible. And not every match matters equally. Case in point, this one. Sure there's a...

Thank goodness there's a week's break, and that we get another one in a few weeks, too. Another week, and another result where one n...

Waited like a chump for the 234 at the usual stop at Banana Alley, for buses that would never arrive; at least not until after 7pm, apparent...

The team having secured a home final of some sort several weeks ago now, and then seemingly having put the cue in the rack until such time a...

Apologies for the very late and very short thing. In just one week we went from arguing with volunteer parking attendants, to being able to ...

Boy, did this whole outing just suck from almost start to finish. Since I do not live that far away from McIvor Reserve, I didn't think ...

There's not enough data to make it a thoroughly resilient trend, but let's go with it anyway. When we play St Albans during one of t...

Let us begin by noting the following, without any sense of hyperbole: since the renovation of Lakeside Stadium into a combined soccer and at...

Tomorrow's (16/6) match against Heidelberg has been postponed until August, due to the Olympic Village field undergoing works for the Wo...

Quite a quick resolution to this matter - Sunday's match against Dandenong Thunder will resume on Tuesday, June 13th, at Lakeside, at 8:...

Another week, another thoroughly enjoyable contest, provided you watched it through the filter of the netting behind the goals. Well, that...