Team such as Liverpool cheers right winger (8)
I believe the answer is:
redstart
'team such' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'liverpool cheers right winger' is the wordplay.
'liverpool' becomes 'Reds' (nickname for the football club).
'cheers' becomes 'ta' (both can mean thank you).
'winger' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'wingers' mean this (letters on the edges or wings of the word)).
'right' with its centre removed is 'rt'.
'reds'+'ta'+'rt'='REDSTART'
'as' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for redstart that I've seen before include "Bird of the thrush family" , "Flier" , "winger" , "Bird (coloured opening!)" , "bird from Europe" .)