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South eases to the finish line - Goulburn Valley Suns 1 South Melbourne 4
What's the point of Sunday trading, and how can you really call yourselves the world's most liveable city, when one can't even organise to have regular trams running before 10am? Never mind, I got to...
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Hellas get the win - South Hobart 0 South Melbourne 1
Maybe it was due to my crook eye, all puffed up and sore - though I prefer to think that it was because of sense of anticipation of the day ahead - I woke up several times in the middle of the night,...
View ArticleA measured response to David Gallop's 'state of the football nation' address
The following missive was sent to us by the same writer of last year's popular anti-NPL piece.Feel free to share and comment upon this effort.Well, I was really looking forward to this when I heard...
View ArticleDetails for this week's game against North East MetroStars
Since the Kiss of Death is on its usual second half of the season hiatus, and I haven't bothered with match previews for a while now - and anyway, I know almost nothing about our opponents this week -...
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Sunk by ghost of Hellas past - South Melbourne 1 North Eastern MetroStars 2
The club sandwich at the Limerick Arms is a joke. Scott Tunbridge scored the winner against us ten years down the line from his South stint. And the corneal scarring on my good as gone left eye got...
View ArticleLujic player oif the year, Taylor coach of the year at Gold Medal night
Last night Milos Lujic picked up the FFV Gold Medal for the NPL's player of the year award. The most recent South player before him to win that award was of course Fernando De Moraes back in 2010....
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Stupid in-joke artefact Wednesday - South Melbourne guestbook photos
Admittedly, in a week where I could have pulled out several thematically appropriate artefacts for the purposes of reminiscence, I've decided to go in the completely opposite direction. This entry,...
View ArticleSouth of the Border Awards 2014
There were many fine efforts this year, and many memorably moments. This awards ceremony fits into neither of those categories.Player of the year: Milos Lujic. He scored lots of goals.Under 21 player...
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Hubris artefact Wednesday - The Score Fanzine
This is truly one of the more bizarre Australian soccer publications I've ever seen. The short version is that it's a fanzine created specifically for the occasion of the second leg of the 1998 World...
View ArticleOff-season digressions - WNBL: Dandenong Rangers vs Melbourne Boomers
Towards the beginning of the year, or maybe some time in March, a friend of a friend's grandfather had died, and thus a discounted general admission ticket became available for a Melbourne Tigers game...
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Social club artefact Wednesday - Middle Park 'field of dreams' flag
2014 is not only ten years since we nearly went kaput, but it's also twenty years tomorrow since we played our last game at Middle Park. The acquisition of Middle Park is a huge part of our history,...
View ArticleJoe Gorman on Middle Park in The Guardian
Just in case you've missed it on its various Facebook and Twitter incarnations, Joe Gorman has recently written an excellent piece on Middle Park for the Guardian. It includes interviews and...
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A passing thought on the FFA's National Club Identity Policy
Sometimes you can write an essay on an issue, hoping to get people across to your point of view using the age old arts of rhetoric and reasoned argument. Sometimes you can't be bothered, so you get...
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Lakers artefact Wednesday - Lakers street sign
This arfetact was one of several images uploaded recently by Nick Vertsonis on Twitter, and which I'll be uploading one by one in due course. Now the first thing you need to know is that this is, of...
View ArticleOctober 2014 digest of everything (OK, some things)
This post is a bit of a grab all of a range of different concerns floating around, as well some news, in the middle of trying to avoid having a nervous breakdown, which is not an official term...
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More headgear artefact Wednesday - Lakers Headband
Back in July of this year, I put up a post celebrating the Hellas headband, a wonderful piece of South Melbourne Hellas merchandise history. Now in the comments section of that piece, someone mentioned...
View ArticleTell the club what you think
The club has an online survey running at the moment, asking about the general supporter experience. Please do take the time to answer the questions, to help the club better understand what kind of...
View ArticleJohnny Warren and George Negus time capsule - ethnic question 1996
I wasn't going to do anything for the 10th anniversary of Johnny Warren's death - it had both not occurred to me to do so, and neither am I into beatification - but some of the commentary around...
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Bubblewrap artefact Wednesday - framed Team of the Century print
This post is tinged with both sadness and also a bit of hope. I have lived in the same house for something like 27 years, and now it's on the market. Quite where my family and I will end up is...
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