Possible Clues:

• Penalty hit spun men around
• Sanction
• Penalty kick, taking one's hard on team
• Raskolnikov's was admittedly due
• Everton gutted — thumps in dodgy penalty
• What could be provided by nine thumps? Six, classically!
• Chaps in his punt adrift, needing correction
• Like a play on words intended to be voiced as retribution?
• See 21 Down
• Ground workers get time as a retribution for indiscipline