Fair about the French football team? (6)
I believe the answer is:
eleven
'football team?' is the definition.
(I know that football team can be written as eleven)
'fair about the french' is the wordplay.
'fair' becomes 'even' (I've seen this in another clue).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'even' placed around 'le' is 'ELEVEN'.
(Other definitions for eleven that I've seen before include "Number in a cricket team" , "Football or cricket team?" , "Time for morning coffee" , "1 and 1?" , "Cardinal" .)