Own goal on Sunday frightening people (5)
I believe the answer is:
ogres
'frightening people' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'own goal on sunday' is the wordplay.
'own goal' becomes 'OG' (football abbreviation).
'on' becomes 're' ('on' can be mean 'with reference to').
'sunday' becomes 's'.
'og'+'re'+'s'='OGRES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ogres that I've seen before include "Bugbears" , "Giant types" , "Fairytale giants" , "huge figures" , "Awful brutes" .)