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Football team with tendency to cross, winning corner at the end (9)

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brentford

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'football team' is the definition.
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'tendency to cross winning corner at the end' is the wordplay.
'tendency' becomes 'bent' (bent can mean a propensity or tendency).
'to cross' becomes 'ford' (to ford a stream is to cross it).
'winning' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters win or obtain others).
'at the end' suggests the final letters.
The final letter of 'corner' is 'r'.
'bent'+'ford'='bentford'
'bentford' enclosing 'r' is 'BRENTFORD'.

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