Free Hit, Same Shit.
This week, we dissect the 4-1 mauling that felt less like a NLD and more like a roadside accident.
Who played well? Tough one. Who didn't? Easier. Igor's fiirst match in charge was like Thomas's last. Plus ca change. But he's got a whole 11 games to put things right.
Was Micky being disrespectful again? Have the players subconsciously downed tools? Why should they put their faith in a journeyman firefighter?
More Room 101 to lighten the tone, plus some intensely stupid tweets to feast on.
Simon Lipson hosts Spurs journalistic legend Julie Welch, and Rob White, son of Spurs footballing legend John. Together they wrote The Ghost of White Hart Lane and boy, we could use his talent now.
Strap in. It's Nice One Cyril.
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Host
Simon is a former solicitor who saw the light and got the hell out of law before it broke him. He started a career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in 1993, becoming a regular at The Comedy Store, Jongleurs and all major - and a few minor - comedy clubs around the UK and abroad. He has appeared on countless BBC Radio shows including Dead Ringers, Week Ending, Loose Ends and The Game's Up (lead impressionist) and also had his own Radio 4 sketch comedy show, Fordham & Lipson. His TV appearances have 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, Alistaie McGowan, Al Foran, Christina Bianco and Jim Meskimen. He was also the creator and host of The VARside Spurs podcast, before setting up Nice One Cyril in August 2025, which he continues to host.
Simon works as a professional voiceover artist.
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, the best-selling The Biography of Tottenham Hotspurand The Ghost of White Hart Lane (with Rob White).
Julie joins us every week on Nice One Cyril
Rob White is the son of Spurs legend John White. Rob spent most of his working life as
a studio based commercial photographer but has
recently qualified as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. He is a self-confessed sports obsessive
with particular emphasis on the heritage, history, and community around sport. Rob still
regularly plays 6-a-side football and proudly represents the ‘Tottenham Hotsteppers’
walking football team.
Rob has co-written (with Julie Welch) a biography of his dad ‘The Ghost of White Hart Lane’
(2011) which has recently been brilliantly adapted as a one-man stage show.
This critically acclaimed production will be part of continuing to honour the
proud legacy of his father and the great Spurs side that John White was a part of.
Footballing hero: Dave Mackay