The beautiful game (6)
(Other definitions for soccer that I've seen before include "... players playing this (colloquially)" , "The beautiful game?" , "Informally, game" , "Ball game" , "Roy Keane's game" .)
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">the beautiful game</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I've seen this before)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for football that I've seen before include "controversial issue" , "Gambling on soccer results" , "The beautiful game, some say" , "Liverpool or Everton, for example" , "Strange ballot of the game" .)