City skinned Stoke then United lost to you (5)
I believe the answer is:
tokyo
'city' is the definition.
(Tokyo is an example)
'then united lost to you' is the wordplay.
'then' becomes 'tok' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'united' becomes 'U' (as in Man U, English football team).
'lost to' is a deletion indicator.
'you' with 'u' taken away is 'yo'.
'tok'+'yo'='TOKYO'
'skinned stoke' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tokyo that I've seen before include "Capital of Japan" , "Kyoto (anag)" , "Large Japanese city" , "Japanese capital" , "Asian capital" .)