### Clue: Not as troubled against weakened top grade football team (5,5)
### Answer: ASTON VILLA 
 ### Explanation: Definition: football team
 **Anagram of**(… troubled) NOT AS + V(abbrev. for "versus"/against, of two sides in a competition or dispute) + ILL(weakened by, say, a sickness) + A(denoting the top/first grade).