There were times when managers felt tempted to give up on Miguel Almirón and even the odd moment when he resolved to stop chasing a seemingly futile dream.
After scoring eight goals in 14 Premier League games this season, Newcastle United’s Paraguay attacking playmaker appears on course for all sorts of awards next spring, but it is little more than a decade since Almirón accepted a job collecting supermarket trolleys in Asunción’s heavily populated San Pablo barrio.
