Nigerians scream RACISM as Sky Sports Football didn’t put Ademola Lookman picture on front page instead added 2 white footballers despite scoring hattrick against Bayer Leverkusen

A Nigerian man wrote: “Atalanta have WON the Europa League after beating Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the final in Dublin. Yet Ademola Lookman picture wasn’t added on front cover.”

Atalanta may have ruined the fairytale that is Alonso and his treble-chasing Bundesliga champions, but there is no shortage of romance when it comes to the Italian underdogs, either. 

They had bark and bite and, in Lookman, a player who epitomised the adventure of Gian Piero Gasperini’s brave and brilliant side. His three goals got better as they went, the last after skinning his man with a scissors before producing a dagger of a shot that nearly ripped the net.

Atalanta went on the attack from the off and, not cowed by the warriors who supposedly lay in wait, it was they who were the gladiators. The reward for their daring and Lookman’s killer instinct was the second trophy in the club’s history. The last was a Coppa Italia 61 years ago. This was their fairytale, you see.

Alonso, meanwhile, once spent a summer in Dublin learning English as a teenager. But he was just about lost for words in any language after watching his favourites fail to show.