Hellas Fathers

Key points

• A writer recalls childhood weekends at South Melbourne Hellas in the early 1970s, when his stepfather, Scottish-born captain Stevie Walker, played for the club. Ange Postecoglou, whose Greek immigrant father loved the club, was a young boy in the stands then.
• The writer describes how football bonded fathers and sons, and how Postecoglou's love of the game grew from time spent with his father.
• The piece also reflects on Walker's death twenty years ago and the writer's memories of Greek culture in Melbourne.