Possible Clues:

• Footballers in defence, those making rubbish clearances?
• Defensive players, ones lamenting following conclusion of shambles
• Small people who cry will be footballers
• Pet Hair Erasers, e.g
• They clean up well
• Footballers? Small people who cry!
• After having had a brush, someone is crying in the ship
• See 7
• They have a brush with those that cry if they lose their head
• If they brush off their heads in makes them cry