Explain Italian footballers opening British sandwich shop (9)
I believe the answer is:
interpret
'explain' is the definition.
(interpreting is a kind of explaining)
'italian footballers opening british sandwich shop' is the wordplay.
'italian footballers' becomes 'inter' (Inter Milan).
'opening british sandwich shop' becomes 'pret' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'inter'+'pret'='INTERPRET'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for interpret that I've seen before include "Orally translate" , "Discern the meaning of" , "Translate, make sense of" , "Read" , "Explain the meaning of - another language?" .)