Red's issue? No midfield covering international work (10)
I believe the answer is:
commission
'work' is the definition.
(I know that commission is a type of assignment)
'red's issue? no midfield covering international' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'no' could be 'o' (O resembles 0) and 'o' is located in the answer.
'covering' could be 'on' and 'on' is found in the answer.
'international' could be 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF) and 'i' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for commission that I've seen before include "Instruction, command" , "task" .)