The new soccer season kicks off in a matter of weeks - Heaven help us - and fantasy footballers will be busy assembling their squads.

Here is a twist on the game from Richard Cohen, an architect from Belsize Square who has formed a dream team of celebrity Cohens. (They don't all have to be Jewish).

His selection: in goal, William S Cohen, basketball star and Bill Clinton's Defence Secretary; right-back George Cohen, World Cup Winner 1966; left-back, Ben Cohen1, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's; centre-backs James Caan, actor, and Sacha Baron Cohen, multiple character actor. Midfielders: the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan, inventive Oscar-winning film-makers; right-wing, Ben Cohen2 Rugby World Cup winner 2003; left-wing Daniel Cohn-Bendit, elusive 1968 Paris protest-leader.

Strikers: Mickey Cohen, LA gangster, crack shot; and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, brilliant but flawed banker.

Subs: Sid James (né Solomon Cohen), Carry On star; Sir Ronald Cohen, venture capitalist; Wesley Kanne Clark, Nato general.

And the manager, the cool, poetic Leonard Cohen.

Richard Cohen has even designed the team's strip, which bears a suitably priestly motif.