Fergie-time is back and world football has clocked on to a breezy 18-year-old Irish lad on England’s south coast.
Forget that holding midfielders are in vogue, nothing fuels the sport’s imagination like the player who can put the ball in the onion sack. Again and again.
Brighton’s Evan Ferguson, who floored Newcastle United on Saturday, has that knack. In the Premier League, in particular, such an ability carries a currency like no other.
Alan Shearer, Harry Kane, Thierry Henry, Sergio Aguero, Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Ruud van Nistelrooy, prize predators all, had it in spades.