YOU didn’t have to look too far on social media last weekend to find English soccer supporters in a frenzy over stellar young striker Evan Ferguson, pleading with him to reconsider his Irish allegiance in the aftermath of his first Premier League hat-trick.

Our neighbours would clearly like the 18-year-old starlet from Co Meath, whose mother is English, to switch sides and don the white of England. However, luckily for Irish football, Ferguson is here to stay.