Possible Clues:

• The 18-yard box
• A neat player fouled somewhere close to goal
• Spotted place to get a kick out of a trip?
• An early tea is arranged by head of press box
• It's adjacent to goal in which a player gets entangled with a net
• Tape nearly wound around a box
• Part of pitch in which a neat player gets fouled
• Write a line with thanks about river for the box
• 18-yard box
• 18-yard box, in soccer