Have We Reached Peak Nothingness?
This week we attempt to deconstruct 90 minutes of absolute vapidity. From “Flappy” launching a free kick into the Thames to Gallagher’s invisibility cloak and Solanke playing so deep he was almost buried.
Host Simon Lipson is joined by f-bomb flinger Julie Welch, eternal optimist-with-a-funeral-face Kevin Acott, and Spurs support group debutant Peter Willis.
On the agenda:
The match: a study in nothingness.
Tel and Richy tried. The rest?
Igor Tudor’s “complex problems”
Another disallowed goal for the conspiracy theorists.
Would relegation at least make season tickets cheaper?
And we scrape the barrel for genuine positive.
Plus: stupid tweets, one sensible one, and a lovely review.
If you’re clinging to Forest and West Ham doing us a favour, this one’s for you.
Hope springs eternal. Sort of.
COYS THFC
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.
Peter blames Jimmy Greaves for everything – although watching the 1967 Cup Final
with his Chelsea supporting grandfather was a contributory factor
He wanted to be a war correspondent which is why he studied history, geography and
politics at A Level then did a degree in Politics with Strategic Defence Studies.
The BBC had other ideas so he went into a small training company during which time
he spent 3 months living in Europe’s most bombed hotel working at De Lorean.
He set up his own small firm in 1990 working in 60+ countries – still going in spite of governments of all colours plus the
inland revenue trying to bankrupt him. Raised 9 children along the way, 15 grandkids and counting
Co-host of the Off The Rekord podcast. Favourite Spurs players: Jimmy Greaves and Glenn Hoddle