Nice One Cyril

"Nice One Cyril" is a single by Cockerel Chorus written by Harold Spiro and Helen Clarke.

The song title is a reference to Cyril Knowles, a left back who played for Tottenham Hotspur.

14 on the UK Singles Chart, after Tottenham won, and its writers Spiro and Clarke received an Ivor Novello Award for Best Novel or Unusual Song in 1974.

[6][7] Harold Spiro, a fan of the club, wrote the song with Helen Clarke based on the slogan.

[10][11] In Cockney rhyming slang it was adopted to mean "squirrel",[12] and it was the title of the autobiography of Cyril Fletcher.