Misery as United thrashed Spurs (8)
I believe the answer is:
sourpuss
'misery' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'as united thrashed spurs' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'as' could be 'so' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'so' is present in the answer.
'united' could be 'u' (as in Man U, Manchester United) and 'u' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'spurs' is 'rpuss' which is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sourpuss that I've seen before include "Miserable, gloomy, type" , "Habitually sullen person" , "Sullen-looking person" , "Habitually gloomy person" , "Miserable so-and-so" .)