Welcome To Omnishambles FC, Igor
Enter Igor Tudor: a man with 11 jobs in 12 years and a no wingers policy. But he's a chaos specialist. So is he the right man at the right moment? And will he stay if we win every match including the Champions League? Stranger things.
We bid a tearful farewell to John Heitinga after an era-defining four-week stint, and examine Igor's team of hatchet-faced henchmen.
Also:
The Penguin Defense: We consign "hands-behind-the-back" defending, amongst other things, to Room 101.
Fact or Fiction: Did Tim Sherwood use a burner name for TalkSport? And did Son’s dad really ban him from playing for being a millisecond slow?
Arsenal. Don't worry, we've got your back.
Simon Lipson, Julie Welch, Kevin Acott and Dave Bradshaw get everything right. In a way. It’s messy, it's funny, it’s frantic, it’s Nice One Cyril.
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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
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.
Dave Bradshaw has worked his entire life in the tiny world of oral microbiology, firstly in public health labs and latterly in large corporations. He has published more than 75 peer reviewed papers in the field and has a number of patents and other such baubles.
Born in Wood Green, a W3 bus ride from the Lane, he’s since emigrated - first to Cardiff as a student and then to Salisbury and latterly East Kent. Outside work and following Spurs, his passions are wine, curry and backing slow horses running round fields.