Follower or team leader got stuck into meal (9)
I believe the answer is:
supporter
'follower' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'stuck into meal' is the wordplay.
'stuck' becomes 'ort' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'meal' becomes 'supper' (supper is a kind of meal).
'ort' placed within 'supper' is 'SUPPORTER'.
'or team leader got' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for supporter that I've seen before include "Second" , "Strut" , "sports fan?" , "Adherent, defender" , "angel" .)