Oliver Brown: Alexander Isak's meltdown is the desperate act of an ingrate
Newcastle fans can be forgiven if, after a pattern of behaviour so wretched that he is decried in the stands as 'one greedy b-----d', they struggle to accept his word as gospel. In the end, there is just one concrete piece of evidence illustrating Isak's situation, and that is a six-year contract he is seeking to break after three.
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