The last time a team began a Champions League final as unfancied as Inter Milan, we were also in Istanbul.
Eighteen years ago, Liverpool played AC Milan here having not even finished in the top four of the Premier League — and we all know what happened.
For Inter, Italy’s third-best team, the scale of the task against Manchester City is clear.
Some bookmakers are offering odds as generous as 4-1, which is quite something in a two-horse race. But just as Liverpool triumphed in the Ataturk Stadium in 2005, so Inter have travelled here in hope this time.