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 experts and dismal pundits to Room 101, discuss our best and worst Spurs matches and Julie offers a lyrical and moving tribute to the legendary Cliff Jones. And loads more.
Analysis, irreverence, laughs, therapy.
With Simon Lipson, Julie Welch, Kev Acott & Barry Graham.
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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.
Barry is a Glaswegian who bitterly regrets the life-limiting consequences of his inept glory-hunting as a child in the early 80s. A Glenn Hoddle poster on his next-door neighbour's bedroom wall, coupled with back-to-back FA Cup wins, was all it took to consign him to a toxic but unbreakable relationship with Tottenham.
In 2012, he set up Glasgow Spurs, the first official supporters club north of the border.
He and his son, whom he selfishly indoctrinated, have been season-ticket holders since the temporary move to Wembley.
Barry, a former journalist now working in communications, would love to see Spurs win the league before he dies. But in the meantime will settle for not being put through the ordeal of another relegation fight.