Possibly sore about a cricket club providing football (6)
I believe the answer is:
soccer
'football' is the definition.
(soccer is a kind of football)
'possibly sore about a cricket club' is the wordplay.
'possibly' is an anagram indicator.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'a cricket club' becomes 'cc'.
'sore' with letters rearranged gives 'soer'.
'soer' placed around 'cc' is 'SOCCER'.
'providing' is the link.
(Other definitions for soccer that I've seen before include "Informally, game" , "popular game" , "Association football" , "... players playing this (colloquially)" , "Ball game" .)