Club awaiting the law courts, initially wound up (5,8)

I believe the answer is:

wigan athletic

'club' is the definition.
(football club)

'awaiting the law courts initially wound up' is the wordplay.
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'wound up' is an anagram indicator (letters twisted or wound into a new form).
The initial letters of 'law courts' is 'lc'.
'awaiting'+'the'+'lc'='awaitingthelc'
'awaitingthelc' with letters rearranged gives 'WIGAN ATHLETIC'.

(Another definition for wigan athletic that I've seen is " Law, cheating it (anag)".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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