World Cup 98 Anagram Competition

When you’re sitting under the bright studio lights at peak daytime-viewing, nervously fiddling with your pen, Richard Whiteley grinning at your discomfort just a few feet away, the annoying synthesized ditty drawing inexorably to its climax, the one thing you cannot do is to shout “Oi! Vorderman! NO! I may admire your intimidating mix of mental agility with both letters and numbers, blended with your natural though waning sexual allure enhanced by blouses that tend to open as you lean forward to dispense letters, but when I ask for ten vowels and I only get Es and Os etc etc…….” before explaining that you really were district Scrabble champion in 1983, you’ve got the egg cup to prove it, and getting up to wipe the smirk off Giles Brandreth’s face with a right uppercut just as Channel Four breaks for some unscheduled light classical music. No indeed not. No you’ve just got to accept your lot and get on with it.

That said, the anagram was a particularly poor throw-away idea of mine to pack out the bottom of the page and I do apologise. When I got around to it myself I didn’t get much past “Monkey Swerves” and, no, there was no secret 28 letter conundrum in there.

However, for everyone that threw their dummy out of the pram there was another that gurgled happily and completed the assignment. In no particular order, here are the anagrams submitted for the immortal phrase “Everybody seems to know the score” ….

1	Why does every escort meet knobs so
2	Bees drove monkey to chew oysters
3	Yes: Even moody Scots threw beer OK
4	O Yes! To the woods beer cry Kev’s men
5	Chesty vet seeks Romeo wonder boy
6	Every week the tomboy’s son scored
7	Yo – very new tots skreem choose bed
8	Know the score? Everybody seems to
9	OK Everybody meets the cross now
10	Ehe better Woody scores, Kev my son
11	They think it’s all over (er?)
12	Why no beers Kev, sod my score totty
13	Choose Terry Benet’s v meek Woody’s
14	She covered Keown’s boot mysterye
15	Seven Two to Hods Boys
16	Bollacks (sic) this is a football competition
17	Roy’s very new tech boots seek demo
18	The body seems to know every score
19	See D boys shock every remote town
20	Donkey Boy shows secret tree move
21	So y don’t eye (geddit?)
22	O The very best nooky does screw ‘em