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Match program and sundry items update
With thanks to stuff loaned from the club, this is what I have added in the past little while in terms of South programs:Presentation night materials from 1988 until about 2000. Not for every year, but...
View ArticleLucky guess
All hail the mighty oracle that is South of the Border.Well, not really, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't deliberately seek to undercut my own moment of irrefutably minor online glory.Yesterday morning...
View ArticleOld South doco artefact Wednesday - Afifa's Game
In the mid-2000s, Afifa Saad was a goalkeeper for South Melbourne's women's team. The Victorian Women's Premier League goalkeeper of the year in 2006, apart from personal success, Saad's soccer career...
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All Greek To Me artefact Wednesday - 3XY Radio Hellas' Oceania Club...
This week's artefact pays tribute to two anniversaries, although I was more aware of one than the other when I started writing this piece.It seems kinda sad that - so far - the club's 60th anniversary...
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Environmentally Friendly
Our off-season recruiting does resemble is a case of pick your own cliche. Is it "everything old is new again" or "we're picking off the carcass of the deceased"?Defying those definitions are the...
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Book Review - Trevor Thompson's Playing For Australia
ABC journalist Trevor Thompson had previously written One Fantastic Goal, one of a slew of books that were commissioned (or were reprinted) during the time the Socceroos had made the 2006 World Cup....
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Mid-November mutterings to oneselfNo sign of a South Melbourne AGM on the horizon, although there's enough time yet to sneak one in before Christmas.The new season, as per recent custom, is going to...
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Book Review, The Little Professor of Soccer - Leo Baumgartner
Among Australian soccer history aficionados, Leopold Baumgartner's The Little Professor of Soccer holds a special place as being the first notable published biography of an Australian soccer player,...
View ArticleLate-November mutterings to oneself
AGM newsNo sign of a South Melbourne AGM on the horizon, although there's enough time yet to sneak one in before Christmas. Someone said on social media that news of this would come soon. It might.2020...
View Article2019 SMFC and SMH AGM dates announced
The annual general meeting for South Melbourne Hellas has been announced for Sunday, 22nd December, at 11:00am, in the social club. This will be followed by the South Melbourne FC AGM at 11:45am.It...
View ArticleIf You Know Your History site is up and running
While we're waiting for something South Melbourne related to happen, this is just a post to note that I've set up a little blog that's more or less an annotated episode guide to If You Know Your...
View ArticleA casual reminder
That the AGMs are on this Sunday. If you have not received any notification from the club on that front, you may want to get on to that, pronto.
View ArticleHelp identify the opponent
The folk at Heidelberg have unearthed some old footage of South Melbourne at Middle Park from the mid-1970s. They've posted a snippet online, but the identity of the opponent (in the blue shirts -...
View ArticleNotes from the 2019 AGM
As tends to happen, my recollection of Sunday's events will be based less upon the order in which things happened, but more so via theme.The two AGMs - South Melbourne Hellas and South Melbourne FC -...
View ArticleHas it really been 12 years? Yes, it has.
Let me be blunt - 2019 sucked. I doubt that next year will be much better, but we'll see. Anyway, there are people to thank, so let's get to that.Thanks to Luke Radziminski and Cindy Nitsos for putting...
View ArticleWelcome to 2020, belatedly
Just over 4 weeks to go. Getting myself excited and ready. I even printed a fixture for my boss, so they know not to bother rostering me on. #nplvic#smfcpic.twitter.com/3AqzfJoaXl— dj ēļřāffő...
View ArticleTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood (the ambient noise is Furlong Road)
When it rains, it pours, and haven't we seen that play out this week? Everyone (except me) panicking about a lack of pre-season friendlies, and then: BANG! Two friendlies announced on the same day, and...
View ArticleTaking a brief hiatus from the blog
Dear South of the Border readers,Due to my having to take care of some pressing personal business over the next little while, the blog will be going into hiatus for the next few weeks.I will also be...
View ArticleDeath and its malcontents
I'm tired of the old shit Let the new shit beginEels - Old Shit/New ShitI had begun writing up a post about last week's final friendly, but it was maudlin and stiff to the point of self-parody....
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Journey to the centre of the earth - South Melbourne 0 Heidelberg United 3
pic.twitter.com/Go4IM0VpNL— Video Game Advisor (@VGAdvisor) February 14, 2020Photo: Luke Radziminski.For those people who were worried that there'd be drastic changes to the South Melbourne experience...
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