Still one of my favourites, that. 'unfortunately fell off a cliff'
If you could successfully mimic Nic's genius for the redundant phrase, tone-deafness, dogmatism and the earth-shatteringly banal, one could make a fortune out of a fantastic comic character.
Paul Merton? Not the Arsenal legend, the other one.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."