Across
- 2. Sounds like profit! Spanish salt over both legs of right winger (7, 5)
- 5. Marching orders sent by Erik?! (3, 4)
- 7. Top scoring Persian now trimming sheep (4,7)
- 10. Did you hear a ewe nag Ole to score (6, 4)
- 11. This is just Kevin Keen but with goals and assists?! (5, 6)
- 14. Old School line up calls up two climbing plants and a nocturnal lemur (4, 4, 3)
- 16. hooray! Sounds like an awful place for a world cup embarrassment (4, 7)
- 17. Successful yanks initially unlock stuck window, not twists (1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
- 18. Former champions third place, majorly spawning anxiety?! (4)
- 23. Vozinha plays it here cool... cool... Scrambles! (4, 4)
- 24. Iconic nickname again fifty fifty on sins (3, 6)
- 26. Former city man can only mimic and stutter about heroics against the Huns (4, 7)
- 27. Short summer month for Middlesbrough baller (7)
- 30. Hard worker in whirlpool in Kent lagoon (5, 5)
Down
- 1. Optimistic Club scores first but it's made heartache tonight (2, 5, 6)
- 3. Final moment of shame reworked, daubed at zenith (6, 8)
- 4. Can't change anything now, are the U-boats all right?! (2,4,4)
- 6. Rangers' league start annexing Emilia Romagna club? (4)
- 8. Goddess discovered at Alan Taylor's (8)
- 9. This cliché's divided the whole sport! (1, 4, 2, 6)
- 12. African centre back jinxes past a bonded Mo (6, 7)
- 13. Easy to buy back two thirds of a fifth (1, 1, 1, 1)
- 15. Six goals and assists for this Spanish midfielder (4)
- 19. Wahey! Not home or away, but with a royal honour losing inside neutral stadium (7)
- 20. Informal Mockery discovered in Lviv and even spurs man cannot defend it (5, 3, 2, 3)
- 21. Iran Leopard mistaken for bearded manager (6, 5)
- 22. Club takes loss from ordeal with you on edge of box (7)
- 25. goes in punch between legs!? (6)
- 28. Youth for ourselves or old lady? (8)
- 29. 500 partial companions, is that 50? 1000? Or zero world champions? (4, 4)