If one moment captured the conflict of Newcastle United's summer, it was Alexander Isak driving into the training ground and being forced to wait as an ice-cream van drove out.
The ice-creams had been for the children of his team-mates, all part of a family fun day organised by Eddie Howe. By late afternoon, it was out with the sweets and in with the sour.
It is that bitterness, felt by Isak towards the club and for him by supporters, that makes Monday night's visit of Liverpool the equivalent of tossing a lit match into a fireworks factory.