More candidates kept in the the sports desk database for the appropriate occasion:
The goalkeeper got a big hand to it: Has anyone come across a goalkeeper with small hands?
Pivot: Central midfielder, stand-off, basketball centre, take your pick.
Braveheart: a Scottish loser.
Rumbled over the line: Exclusive to prop forwards scoring a try.
Burly: prop forwards in general (as if lanky ones exist).
A great player from tee to green: Golfer who can't putt.
He'll love, just love it, if he wins/loses: De rigueur in any article about Kevin Keegan.
And a few faithful stand-by headlines:
Kop that: Liverpool win at home.
Red menace: Liverpool or Manchester United join the title race.
Rovers return: Blackburn player back from injury.
I'm Gunner do the trick: Arsenal striker's pre-match boast.
Wolves at the door: Bad times at Molineux.
Happy Wanderers: Bolton win at last.
Seasiders: Any team with a home ground a mile from the sea (around 157 of them at the last count).
Numbered cliches:
Three and easy: A 3-0 win.
Phwoar! (usually in the Sun); A 4-0 win.
Bunch of fives: Applied to teams who lose 5-0.
Five-star: Applied to teams who win 5-0.
Hit for six: Someone's lost 6-0.
Seventh heaven: Team wins 7-0.
Pieces of eight: An 8-0 victory.
Cloud Nine: Ditto, for 9-0.
Finally, commiserations - and best wishes for a speedy recovery - to Andy Dunn of the News of the World who spent New Year's Day in hospital after downing a massive cocktail of cliche on Sunday: "Sir Alex Ferguson not only threw the book, a verbal volley and anything he could lay his hands on at his partying stars ... he threw down the gauntlet."
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