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This was the summer player power went mad. The way Alexander Isak, Yoane Wissa and Viktor Gyokeres downed tools is an obscenity - and proves footballers are self-entitled, spoiled, detached narcissists, writes OLIVER HOLT

This was the summer player power went mad. The way Alexander Isak, Yoane Wissa and Viktor Gyokeres downed tools is an obscenity - and proves footballers are self-entitled, spoiled, detached narcissists, writes OLIVER HOLT

Isak's tactic was hardly new but, the success of it felt significant. What he did used to be the exception. Now, it is getting to the stage where it is the norm.

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