Missing out on the games against France and the Netherlands was the right thing for the player, which is ultimately going to be the right thing for Ireland
This, to put it mildly, isn’t the sort of discourse they’d be used to down in the Seagulls’ social media department these days. Brighton are the darlings of English football right now. At the rate they’re going, they’ll be adding daisy chains and a unicorn to the club crest before Christmas. All their players are about 15 years old, their every goal is a dream sequence and no matter who leaves, nothing seems to halt their progress.
Everybody, that is, unless you’re an Irish fan scorned. Bad enough that he couldn’t play for Ireland against France andafter scoring the first hat-trick in the Premier League by a teenager in 25 years. But to be possibly fit and raring to go in time for Brighton’s first match back? Ah here. Evan Ferguson after scoring the first of his three goals against Newcastle in his last outing. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images
Ferguson is a month short of his 19th birthday. If he has basically an average amount of luck on his side, he’ll play for Ireland for the next 10-to-15 years. That’s anything up to seven or eight qualifying campaigns for major tournaments with him as a goal machine. We could, with a fair wind, have him still banging them in as far away as the 2038 World Cup. Euro 2040, anyone?
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