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FC Espanyol’s wingers or chap from Barcelona? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

manuel

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'chap from barcelona?' is the definition.
'Manuel' can be an answer for 'chap'. I'm not sure about the 'from barcelona?' bit.

'fc espanyol's wingers' is the wordplay.
'fc' becomes 'manu' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'wingers' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (letters on the edges or wings of the word).
'espanyol' with its middle taken out is 'el'.
'manu'+'el'='MANUEL'

'or' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for manuel that I've seen before include "incompetent hotel worker" , "Spaniard" , "Abduct" , "Fawlty Towers waiter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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