Enjoy your youth while you’ve got it.
Whether that means living it up without many responsibilities clogging your schedule, or feeling just fine on a diet of pizza and fries, or scoring a hat trick against Newcastle, you only get to be 18 once.
Most of us can recall unstructured summer days hanging out with friends, feeling indestructible as all of the world’s possibilities lie ahead, but that third one is maybe only reserved for Evan Ferguson. The Brighton striker was in unreal form Saturday, striking three times as Roberto De Zerbi’s side rolled past Newcastle 3-1.
Ferguson showed himself to be a hugely promising prospect last season, and the early signs in this new Premier League campaign point to the Republic of Ireland No. 9 doing this sort of thing on a routine basis for years to come. Naturally, the hat trick in particular got the internet talking: