Clik here to view.
Dead of Winter - South Melbourne 1 Bulleen Lions 0
After the abject horror of Tuesday, it would be foolish to expect miracles on Sunday. Indeed, were those miracles to occur, they would almost certainly manage to enrage the South Melbourne Hellas...
View Article'Even yeeros has been homogenised', by Savvas Tzionis
As a South Melbourne fan I have always been curious how the NSW NPL compares to Victoria. I always watch the highlights and follow the online commentary of our erstwhile rivals across the Murray (or...
View ArticleLosing on aggregate - South Melbourne 3 Richmond 2
There is an aspect to which one could compare this South Melbourne side to someone being rehabilitated from a stroke or a serious car accident. You have to re-learn how to do everything that once...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Moving House artefact Wednesday - Kon moves house...
Usually this segment (when it bothers to run) doesn't go full bore with the images, but this is a bit of a special edition.One of our readers, Kon, has recently moved house and needed to take some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Have a go, ya mugs! South Melbourne 2 Hume City 2
I'm finishing this off on a Monday because of a brutal weekend spent laid up with a cold, and one side-trip to the bloody supermarket. Through the haze I'm trying to remember what happened on Friday,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
We need your help to identify a possible South Melbourne Hellas pin
Despite the somewhat gloomy nature of the photograph - don't blame me, blame the source material - the nature of this week's artefact is fairly self-evident.What is less obvious about this enamel pin,...
View ArticleBad Blood - Bentleigh Greens 3 South Melbourne 1
A relatively short and bittersweet entry for this week.This was a game essentially defined by two phenomena: first, South putting in a hell of an offensive effort, going some way to reclaiming the...
View ArticleTάβλη artefact Wednesday - Hellas-Alexander backgammon table
This artefact, already seen by many people on Twitter, comes to us courtesy of reporter at large Anthony Colangelo:Spotted @ Yarraville Glory this morning. Are there many of these?...
View ArticleThat was then, this is now - Oakleigh Cannons 4 South Melbourne 3
It started off with getting to the ground an hour early, even though I knew the 20s game had been moved to 8:00, because Melbourne's pubic transport system is that damn good. We then moved on to people...
View ArticleI guess you just had to be there - Melbourne Victory 1 South Melbourne 4
If this game's entire existence during the week proved somewhat illusory, perhaps even mythical, there's a good reason for that - practically no one - except perhaps Victory and FFV - seemed to know...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow - South Melbourne 1 Avondale Heights 3
YesterdayAs The Eels once noted, life is funny, but not haha funny.Every now and again, it comes to a point like this. Even if you can see it in the distance though, it still usually manages to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book review - Roy Hay's 'Football and War: Australia and Vietnam 1967-1972'
To coincide with the opening of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Canberra focusing on the 1967 Socceroo tour of Vietnam, the doyen of Australia soccer scholarship Roy Hay has a released a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are you not entertained? Well, now that you mention it... - South Melbourne 2...
One South fan decided to come up with their ownhospital treatment plan. Who said watching South Melbourne was bad for your health?OK, look. It wasn't great, I think we can all agree with that. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'A little piece of home' artefact Wednesday - Middle Park soil and turf
This week's handcrafted South Melbourne Hellas artefact - a jar of soil and turf taken from Middle Park Stadium after the final match there - comes courtesy of one of our readers, the 'Lakeside Spy'....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Good times, bad times (including edit) and reasoning - Pascoe Vale 1 South...
Good timesEverything was going wrong.I was hungry when I got to the game, but the cevapi was being served on focaccia, and I wasn't in the mood for pretending I was in a 1990s food court.Then we went...
View ArticleReport delayed because I went out to buy some thermal paste - South Melbourne...
So at the tribunal last Wednesday we had our date with destiny regarding the poor behaviour of some of our fans away at Bentleigh earlier this season. The net result was a six month ban for one of our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Currently joyful, pending future doom - South Melbourne 3 Hume City 0
The first surprise yesterday was having an experienced referee in the middle of the ground in Perry Mur. He's not everyone's favourite ref - I think there are times when he could be more forthcoming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends - Heidelberg United 1 South Melbourne 2
Olympic Village has one of the most elongated arrangements for players walking onto the ground from the change rooms - their social club being at the northern end of the ground, the players have to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Maybe later, OK?
I woke up. I had some breakfast. I watched the Giants beat the Cowboys on TV, thanks to the latter's inability to comprehend the basics of clock management. I've been reading forums. I wrote some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bruno told us so! South Melbourne 3 Oakleigh Cannons 2
Thank goodness we won because otherwise doing stuff all work during the week (except for reading the first essay in Josef Pieper's 1948 book Leisure, the Basis of Culture) would have been considered a...
View Article