Recently, the venerable Arseblogger noted that our rumoured signing Emir Spahic is an anagram of Arise Chimp, or maybe that should be the other way round.

Well, the other day, I was sitting on the beach at St Ives and my mind wandered along similar lines … so I give you the Arsenal team anagram competition… (Ed’s note – the author has since been made aware that ‘Faces Graces’ lacked a b – so that’s been chopped – and Goat Minds Car was short of an e – which has been added. His profuse apologies. All responsibility for lost time goes to the beer in Cornwall!)

Who is/are?
• Raisin Rams
• Ravine Has Drain
• SOS May Trick
• Non Slide
• Clone Takes Sly Ruin
• Shame Mean Revolt
• Goat Minds Care
• Coral Slave
• Non Main Vote
• Say Bang A Car
• He Re-licks Jaw
• Risk Big Bean
• I Brave Sin, Prone
• Dream Tan Roar
• And my favourite, so far: Mules May Jam On Heat

The real challenge is to come up with an anagram of Wojciech Szczesny!

This is what happens when I don’t work for a couple of weeks!

I have managed to generate three English words from Wojciech Sczezsny; one is admittedly an acceptable abbreviation of a longer word.

So I will offer up my Southampton FA Cup Final programme, signed by Lauren and Gilberto, for a competition on this very website. My decision on the acceptability of the words will be final!! Solve all the anagrams in the list and then come up for as many anagrams for Wojciech Szczesny as you can muster. In the event of a tie, I will have a ballot for the winner.

Closing date for the competition is the end of this week (Friday 27th August) and entries should be emailed to myself at [email protected]

(Ed’s note - I’ll run the answers and the winner at the bottom of my piece after the Blackburn game.)