SOUTH SIDE STORY closely follows the intimate goings-on of South Sydney Football Club – a club that has come to personify the Australian battling spirit. Overcoming extinction, financially overwhelmed by the juggernaut super-clubs, and fighting for survival every time the players take the field. With 3 wooden spoons in the last 4 years – 2007 was shaping as another bad year. But all that is about to change … The club and its new co-owners have invested $3.8M this season to bolster its ranks with a new coach and 5 star recruits.