'Barcelona King' Messi reportedly OK to enter play (4,4,2,5)
I believe the answer is:
look back in anger
'play' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'barcelona king messi reportedly ok to enter' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'king' could be 'er' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'er' is present in the answer.
'ok' could be 'back' (backing is a kind of oking) and 'back' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for look back in anger that I've seen before include "drama!" , "one may retrospectively find outrageous?" , "be ticked off in review?" , "Retrospective of passion" , "play" .)