Director of football’s getting promotion (7)
I believe the answer is:
russell
'director' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'football's getting promotion' is the wordplay.
'football's' becomes 'RU's' (I've seen this in other clues).
'getting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'promotion' becomes 'sell' (promoting or selling a product).
'rus'+'sell'='RUSSELL'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for russell that I've seen before include "Bertrand ___ , philosopher and mathematician, d. 1970" , "Philosopher - prime minister - film director" , "2 [PHILOSOPHER]" , "Victorian PM" , "actress (Rosalind or Jane)" .)