Nice One Cyril

A unique Spurs podcast from long-suffering fans who’ve seen it all and lived to tell the tale. Match chat, mullets and musings. No tactics boards. No xG. No shouting. Just decades of Spurs love, nostalgia and nonsense. Funny, heartfelt, and just Spursy enough to hurt.

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Sept. 1, 2026

Don't Panic, Don't Panic!

A routine win. Yes, really, even if it was against the Charlton youth team. Sávio played twenty brilliant minutes, scored, and immediately crocked himself. Mikey scored a banger and earned a loan to Köln. Then...Newcastle . Archie at right-back, PPP on the wing. We looked all right until we conceded. Plus ca change. RDZ says the mentality and environment have to change. Transfers & Space Travel Mathys Tel took a free-kick that's still orbiting the Sun. Meanwhile, Richarlison, who loves Everton
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Aug. 25, 2026

Bullied By Brentford - A Very Spursy Start

The more things change... Roberto De Zerbi claims we’re not a team yet and weren't ready. But why? The jetlag from the Australasian tour? The endless injury list? A deeper malaise? Meanwhile, we’ve handed him millions to shape his team. What if he flounces out in October? The next bloke will inherit yet another mismatched Frankenstein squad. We deep-dive the Brentford debacle and look at incomings and outgoings. Joining world-weary host Simon Lipson are: Julie Welch, effing and b
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Aug. 18, 2026

Fly, Flappy, Fly - A Spurs Legend* Departs (*LOL)

This week, Simon leads the therapy session alongside Julie Welch (is your phone off, Julie?), Kev Acott (rapidly approaching a monumental 'I don't know' milestone), and token Scot, Barry Graham. We break down: Hoffenheim Double-Header: 10 senior players missing, Mikey Moore running riot, and looking for clues ahead of Brentford The Cuti Exit: 6 red cards, 65% appearance rate, and a farewell to Spurs’s most infuriating lunatic. Transfer Madness: The Savinho saga enters decade three,
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Aug. 11, 2026

Where Are The Forwards? - Spurs Panic Stations

A Spurs XI draws with Getafe, another barely scrapes past our own U21s, and Maddison, Udogie and Solanke are nowhere to be seen. Join Simon Lipson, Julie Welch, Kev Acott, and resident pessimist Chris Askham as they process the N17 pre-season panic. On this episode's menu: Creative Block: Our entire creative department is on the physio's couch. The Forward Search: £250m spent, £100m recouped, but why are we still flinging darts at the board for strikers? The Rumour Mill: Djed Spence
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Aug. 4, 2026

RDZ's Bomba Bollocks - The Spurs ITK Froth

What started with a casual declaration of a "BOMBA!" in the transfer market turned into 48 hours of flight-tracking madness on Spurs Twitter—only for RDZ to walk it back as a simple Italian translation mix-up! We tear into the ITKs who lost their minds over zero actual news. Then, we unpack the action on the pitch from our Australian pre-season tour, breaking down the tough slog against Sydney FC and that high-intensity clash with Chelsea. Plus, we review the transfer rumor mill: Incom
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July 28, 2026

Jet Lag, Brand Growth, Nothing Learned.

New Zealand offered Spurs horizontal freezing rain and a bunch of dustbins to beat. Onwards! Australia beckons. This week, Simon Lipson is joined by Julie Welch, Kev Acott and Dave Bradshaw. We dive into: The Auckland Freeze: Why have we sent a huge squad 11,000 miles to play pointless games? Could there possibly be a financial motive? The Left-Behind Club: Kudus, Kulu, Benta, Sarr. Next season's midfield or will they some/all be off? Pre-Season Overreaction: From branding a 17-year
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July 22, 2026

Roberto Del Boy's Car Boot Sale

Lucas Bergvall wants out, De Zerbi is flogging off the academy like Delboy, and Spurs Twitter has officially lost its collective mind. Fresh back from France, Simon Lipson leads today's therapy session alongside Fleet Street royalty Julie Welch (bringing love, joy, and industrial-strength profanity) and Cyril newbie Suzie Barnacle. On the agenda: Bergvall's imminent departure, Thompson & Lankshear off, Savinho & Kroupi riumbling on, why our players suddenly look world-class at the World Cup,
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July 14, 2026

Pedro Porro Can Defend And Other Tall Tales

We spaffed over £240 million in the first fortnight of the window but fans are already complaining about our recent inactivity. Entitled or what? This week, we dive head first into the bizarre rumour mill: Kroupi: Did Bournemouth ignore our £85m bid because the email slipped into their "message requests" folder? Pound-Shop Semenyo? Is Rafael Leão actually all he's cracked up to be? Djed Spence vs. Neco Williams: Why are ITKs tipping Djed to Everton when he's busy storming the World Cup with
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July 7, 2026

'Boiling Piss' & 'We're Massive'

Spurs are currently operating like a drunk with a stolen credit card, and we are here for the chaos. From dropping £85m on a guy we only discovered was great after watching his YouTube video, to Sandro Tonali who was planning his romantic return to AC Milan before his medical.. Are we actually a serious squad now, or are we lumbering ourselves with a bunch of players who aren't up to the job? Remember how we spaffed the Bale money? We talk Kulu, selling teenagers to Brighton, why Djed is c
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June 30, 2026

Don't Mention The Bomba

The summer window is already driving us insane. We dive head first into the endless Tonali and Mateus Fernandes transfer circus - can't we just buy both and "stop mucking around"? We break down the never-ending Savinho saga, Antonin Kinsky’s brilliant redemption arc as our new number one - or is he? - and Djed Spence’s massive statement of principle at the World Cup. Plus, we unpack Vina's latest corporate waffle, the latest £100m Lewis family injection, and the worrying state of our striking
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June 23, 2026

Steve Perryman Is Here! Captain, Legend.

We're joined by absolute Spurs royalty, a man who doesn’t just know the history of this club—he practically built it. The ultimate captain, a club-record 866 appearances, and a man who lifted two FA Cups and two UEFA Cups in the lilywhite shirt: the one and only Steve Perryman. We sit down with a genuine Spurs icon to look at what true stability and leadership actually look like. And trust us, the contrast couldn't be sharper as we pivot to the circus of the modern game. Incredible insights f
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June 16, 2026

Lowball Bids And Shredded Letters

The summer football drought is here - the World Cup being merely an American advertising opportunity - and we're fretting about all things Spurs. Micky van de Ven is playing left-back to accommodate a player we don't even own yet (and might not), we somehow have eleven centre-backs on the books, and Brighton are peppering us with a passive-aggressive bid for Vuskovic. Did the THST letter go straight into Peter Charrington's shredder? Do they speak for us anyway? We banish couch-potato e

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Feb. 25, 2026

The Losing Habit

The Habit of Losing: How Tottenham's Culture of Defeat Became Ingrained In a particularly poignant moment during the latest Nice One Cyril podcast, Free Hit, Same Shit, guest Rob White shared a quote from legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi that sho…
Feb. 25, 2026

Have the Players Downed Tools? Unpacking Motivation and Commitment

Have Spurs Players Downed Tools? The Motivation Question One of the most fascinating debates in the 'Welcome To Omnishambles FC, Igor' episode centers on a question that's plagued Tottenham all season: have the players simply given up? Or is there …

About the Hosts

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Simon Lipson

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Simon is an ex-solicitor. Moving swiftly on...he was a stand-up comedian and impressionist from 1993, becoming a regular at The Comedy Store, Jongleurs and comedy clubs across the UK and abroad. He appeared on countless BBC Radio shows including Dead Ringers, Week Ending, Loose Ends and The Game's Up and had his own Radio 4 sketch comedy show, Fordham & Lipson. His TV appearances included Celebrity Squares, The Stand Up Show and Talking Telephone Numbers.

He created and hosted the popular Making An Impression podcast, interviewing top impressionists from the UK, Ireland and the USA including Rory Bremner, Jon Culshaw, Alistair McGowan and Christina Bianco. He set up Nice One Cyril in August 2025. Simon works as a professional voiceover artist. His all-time hero is Glenn Hoddle (the player, not the whatever).

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Julie Welch

Julie Welch is a legendary sports journalist, author and screenwriter who in 1973 became Fleet Street's first female football reporter. As a screenwriter she writes both screenplays and scripts for television, while as an author she has written both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most notable works include the 1983 made-for-television film Those Glory Glory Days, which was inspired by her childhood love of football, and the books The Fleet Street Girls, the story of her experiences as a football reporter, Too Marvellous For Words, which describes her education at an all-girl boarding school, Felixstowe College, in the 1960s.

She is the author of the best-selling The Biography of Tottenham Hotspurvand The Ghost of White Hart Lane (with Rob White). Julie's hero and best mate is Steve Perryman.

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Kev Acott

Kev Acott is a grumpy, eternally optimistic writer, photographer, health inspector, university lecturer and therapist who wishes he didn’t have to support Tottenham and is haunted by the fact they haven’t won the league in his lifetime. His father was a Charlton fan who made the twin mistakes of moving to Enfield and not insisting his son follow his lead in supporting a less-traumatising team.

He is a music reviewer and biographer, has had several short stories, articles and poems published and is currently working on a second novel, in which key scenes include a drunken fight at the 1921 FA Cup Final and Jayne Mansfield’s visit to White Hart Lane in 1959. His favourite all-time player is Graham Roberts.

Reviews

I love it

"I love listening to Dame Judy and I love the vocabulary you guys use . Please keep it up ."

Arranhouse | Feb. 26, 2026

Best of the bunch

"...and in a good way Witty and always a good listen!"

Andy Creed | Feb. 3, 2026

Best of the Bunch

"Lovely, knowledgable, sometimes bordering on irreverent, non-tactical pod on the recurring madness that is Tottenham Hotspur. Definitely NOT the place to go, if you want xG info, or similar. (pr…"

Harry Which | Feb. 2, 2026

It's great

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Gary from Harlow | Feb. 2, 2026