New Blog - Melbourne Soccer
Do you harbour less than complimentary opinions of the FFV? When you look deep inside your heart, do you think they could be a significantly better job? Are you some kind of misanthrope who wishes doom...
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Saints Be Praised! Kiss of Death, Round 7, 2013
Bentleigh Greens vs Melbourne Knights @ Bentleigh on Friday @ 8.15pmBentleigh entertain the Knights on Friday night. A game I might be at. Bentleigh sit second while the Knights sit fourth. A game of...
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The Dimi Hatz Show - South Melbourne 2 Oakleigh 1
First up there was a minute's silence for Tony Toumbourou, who as was reported recently, passed away after a long illness.Games between these two sides usually provide the goods in terms of a...
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News Straight from the Corey Hotline
Dockerty Cup match against NorthcoteIt has been scheduled for Queens Birthday Monday - that is Monday, June 10, at 3:00. Bit of a shame, as I was lined up to do a guest report on another blog, which...
View ArticleKiss of Death, Round 8, 2013
Oakleigh Cannons vs Hume City @ Jack Edwards on Friday @ 8.30pmOakleigh take on Hume on Friday night, in what is a must win if they are to have any chance of finals football. They looked very poor on...
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One Life And It's All Politics - Pascoe Vale 0 South Melbourne 0
A disappointing result to say the least. Did we drop two points in the first half? We were well on top even before Pascoe Vale's red card in the 8th minute for a head butt on Brad Norton. And we blew...
View ArticleRound 5 Dockerty Cup Preview - South vs Northcote
Pretty big game. Undefeated Northcote, against a half decent South.Bah, who am I kidding? It's a nothing game.No one is even talking about on field stuff any longer. The forums are clogged with NPLV...
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Heroes and Villains - South Melbourne 3 Northcote City 2 (after extra time)
This was a game that had nearly everything. It was characterised by open, attacking football from both sides. There were red cards, there was blood, and there were heroes and villains in abundance. And...
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League back after cup - round 9 preview
No Kiss of Death for this week, which is a pity, but we'll soldier on as per usual.Because there's no Kiss of Death, this week's preview is therefore brought to you by:Simplified FFV Preview™: The VPL...
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Did both teams drop two points? South Melbourne 2 Melbourne Knights 2
The match started flat. Well, we were flat at any rate, and my mood wasn't helped by conspiracy theory discussions and Thailand trip reminiscences (thanks for the shirt, Con!). And then we justly...
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Round 10 2013 VPL previews
No Kiss of Death this week, hopefully still alive and well somewhere and back with us soon.Port Melbourne vs Dandenong ThunderIncredibly, Steve From Broady has chosen for us to attend this game over...
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Jekyll and Hyde - Northcote City 3 South Melbourne 0
There's no way of sugarcoating a performance like that. When we got beaten 5-0 at this venue by this opponent a couple of years ago, it was with a half strength lineup, plagued by internal strife....
View ArticleByles, Matthews, Keenan, Mattei, Payne all apparently sacked
Huge news! I have no idea of the why, the who etc - only an oblique rumour as to the existence of a 'clique', which might not even exist, let alone include all of the above mentioned players. More news...
View ArticleA Heartfelt Plea From an Anonymous Reader
Not sure why this couldn't just have been posted in the comments section, but one of our readers pleaded for us to have this posted as open-letter, so here goes.3-0 loss to Northcote, eh? You fucken...
View ArticleRound 11 2013 VPL previews
No Kiss of Death this week, again. Apparently Kiss of Death is seriously under the pump these days at whatever keeps them occupied during the working week. Funnily enough though, there hasn't been mass...
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Special Guest Reporter Edition - South Melbourne 0 Port Melbourne 1
Due to personal reasons I was unable to attend this week's match. In my absence I thank my buddy Gains for offering to do this week's match report - though his post-match rumination that he could have...
View ArticleSouth Crisis 2013 - Tsolakis resigns
South Crisis 2012 was a barrel of laughs compared with this stuff. Oh, what deeper hell is this?If I have been lax in keeping up to date with these occurrences - and I think it's safe to say that I...
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Out: Gus. In : CT. Kiss of Death, Round 12, 2013
It's times like these when I'm glad we have the Kiss of Death on board.Gus has gone.It was inevitable. After the events which unfolded last week, there was no question that the Port Melbourne game...
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Let The Navel Gazing Begin - South Melbourne 1 Green Gully 3
You miss a week and end up missing so much. It's not just missing the actual game – being in a situation where I had limited forum and Facebook contact for a week does something to you. Being away in...
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