Possibly sore about a cricket club providing football (6)
I believe the answer is:
soccer
'football' is the definition.
(soccer is a kind of football)
'possibly sore about a cricket club' is the wordplay.
'possibly' indicates an anagram.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a cricket club' becomes 'cc' (cricketing abbreviation).
'sore' is an anagram of 'soer'.
'soer' placed around 'cc' is 'SOCCER'.
'providing' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for soccer that I've seen before include "Informally, game" , "popular game" , "Association football" , "... players playing this (colloquially)" , "Ball game" .)