People outside Melbourne may not be aware, but in the local football scene you support 2 teams, your team and whoever is playing SMH that week. In fact I have a few Greek mates who you would deeply offend if you called them SMH supporters.

Being so disliked, SMH supporters have built up this siege mentality of "everyone is jealous because we were Oceania Team of the Century" and you wont see Italians, Croatians, Maco's, Maltese or "normal" Greeks carrying on like a poor wronged SMH supporter, unfairly stopped from selling out their real club soul to become a plastic AL franchise just because they are Greek.

Hope this background explains why old Mono does what he does and why SMH is hated down here. Dont expect him to change, our only hope is SMH go broke and disappear..

You have it the wrong way around, if you live in Melbourne you support either South Melbourne or Heidelberg, and then you have your local team that you watched in winter when the other 2 were in the NSL. A lot of Greek clubs are pro South, Northcote City, Brunswick City, Malvern, Clifton Hill just to name a few, perhaps Clifton hill more to Heidelberg these days.

South’s popularity at local level always shows when the team travels to Oakleigh, Bulleen etc. Every match South plays away to another Greek club is essentially a home game and they tend to get their biggest crowd of the season.

There are also 100 or so that toyed with the idea of following Melbourne Heart .. oh and 3, if you count  '"Panayiotis" Kone the inaugural marquee superstar, that went to WU... The turncoats like AJF are praying we disappear as they believe their guilt will die too... let them suffer... lol

That's funny coming from a wannabe plastic