In Competition No. 2652 you were invited to submit an extract from the autobiography of a sportsman packed with as many clichés as possible.
The World Cup will no doubt provide a feast of words and phrases that have had the life squeezed out of them, as well as ample opportunity to mock players and pundits for their unimaginative use of language.
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