PETER CROUCH: Everton, Leeds and Co should PANIC now and embrace the relegation scrap before it's too late, because 'we're taking each game as it comes' is complete rubbish, and players say these little white lies while they keep looking at the table!

Listen, we’re just taking each game as it comes. It’s all about the next one for us. We cannot look too far ahead.

These are the sort of lines that become more frequent in football parlance as any season reaches its climax.

You will not be able to move for cliches over the next two months — particularly as in the Premier League this run-in is as exciting as we have seen for some time.

And I am here to tell you that they are all complete rubbish, the little white lies trotted out by managers and players.