cockerel chorus sang nice one cyril nice one son.
who sang nice one cyril nice one son?
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"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. it was released before the 1973 football league cup final where tottenham played norwich city. it reached no. 14 on the british single chart after tottenham won, and its writers spiro and clarke received an ivor novello award for best novel or unusual song in 1974.









































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nice one cyril
due to the popularity of the tv slogan and the song, "nice one cyril" became a popular catchphrase in the 1970s used to praise someone. in cockney rhyming slang it was adopted to mean "squirrel", and it was the title of the autobiography of cyril fletcher, the phrase continued to be used in later decades, but limited to those named cyril or similar; the refrain of the song "nice one cyril, nice one son" was used as a tribute to another footballer cyrille regis in 2018.
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