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Popular team, fundamentally (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

inside

'fundamentally' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'popular team' is the wordplay.
'popular' becomes 'in'.
'team' becomes 'side' (I've seen this before**).
'in'+'side'='INSIDE'

(Other definitions for inside that I've seen before include "locked up" , "A sort of job" , "(Of information) from a confidential source" , "Internal" , "Behind bars (sl.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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