Comms bod employed by football authority left after large blunder (8)
I believe the answer is:
pratfall
'blunder' is the definition.
(I have seen 'humiliating blunder' mean 'pratfall' so perhaps 'blunder' could also mean 'pratfall')
'comms bod employed by football authority left after large' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'by' could be 'at' and 'at' is located in the answer.
'left' could be 'l' (common abbreviation) and 'l' is found in the answer.
'large' could be 'l' (eg in clothes sizes) and 'l' is present 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 pratfall that I've seen before include "embarrassment" , "Embarrassing mistake" , "Humiliating failure (US slang)" , "Slip" , "humiliating blunder" .)