Morning Sports Brief: Real champ - Lookman and Atalanta triumph in Dublin

Gian Piero Gasperini, head coach of Atalanta, lifts the UEFA Europa League trophy after the win over Bayer Leverkusen in Dublin on Wednesday night. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Uefa’s guide to Dublin encouraged Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen fans to sample three different Irish potato dishes – boxty, champ and colcannon.

that “snatched away Leverkusen’s quest for invincibility” and gave the Italian club the biggest achievement in their history. “Atalanta are deserving and magnificent winners,” writes Ken. “They smashed the biggest sides left in the competition, one after another. Who could begrudge the joy of their outstanding coach, Gian Piero Gasperini, winning the first trophy of his career at the age of 66?”, the centre from Kildare, writes Johnny Watterson, becoming “a growing force” for Leinster.

after the IRFU confirmed that provinces will now have to contribute 30 per cent to fund each national contract, replacing the current system in which the union fully financed each one.. “It’s not, strictly speaking, nuclear physics,” he says, but the “GAA’s almost pathological aversion to the “dead rubber” has ensured it is a golden age for the permutation-lover in your life”.

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