Those lovely people at the nearly but not quite out of business Setanta broadcasting are promising absolutely no cliches in their coverage of England vs Kazakhstan this afternoon.

A poll of Sentanta viewers revealed this this were the top ten worst cliches :

1. “At the end of the day” (18%)
2. “On paper…” (16%)
3. “A game of two halves” (14%)
4. “This game needs a goal” (12%)
5. “There are no easy games in international football” (10%)
6. “For a big lad, he’s good with his feet” (9%)
7. “A funny old game” (8%)
8. “This free-kick is in Beckham-range” (7%)
9. “Setting out their stall” (4%)
10. “End-to-end stuff” (2%)

So Sentanta’s commentators have vowed not to use them. However, given that one of those commentators is Chris Waddle, I give it 10 minutes at most.

It would be nice, thoug.