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EXCLUSIVEWelcome to Isak-Land: CRAIG HOPE goes inside the Cold War nuclear bunker that built Newcastle's £150m weapon of mass destruction - with help from a burger restaurant, a stolen sack of footballs and 'the explosion'

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We are standing on a centre spot, five miles north of Stockholm, where 16-year-old Alexander Isak once waited to kick off. His eyes, unlike mine, were not on the majestic, retro floodlights or the nearby block of flats they rival in size.

‘He had a look in his eye,’ says Peter Wennberg, technical director of AIK’s academy. He points towards the dugout of the Skytteholms ground where he was that night, opposite the only stand of 1,000 seats. He turns us 90 degrees to face the goal.

‘Alex had noticed their goalkeeper too far from his line,’ he says.