/football
is not a valid permalink natively because taxonomy base /category/football
is used to reliably distinguish permalinks between different objects (or you might get unholy collisions).
There are some answer on this site (as well as plugins around, for example FV Top Level Categories) for removing category base but it’s considered highly error–prone configuration.
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