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English football club lets in reserve turning handle for access? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

username

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'english football club lets in reserve turning' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.

'handle for access?' is the wordplay.
'handle' becomes 'name' (handle can mean a name or nickname).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'access?' becomes 'user' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'name' after 'user' is 'USERNAME'.

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(Other definitions for username that I've seen before include "Log in identifier" , "One's identifier on a computer" , "Something needed for logging in" , "Online identity" , "Person's computer ID" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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