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Dressed football team like Liverpool (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manured

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'dressed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with motion as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'football team like liverpool' is the wordplay.
'football team' becomes 'man u' (short for Manchester United).
'like liverpool' becomes 'red' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'manu'+'red'='MANURED'

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(Another definition for manured that I've seen is " mucky".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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