You have to hand it to Barcelona. They've put years of the same effort, consistency, doggedness and imagination into careering downhill toward their 8-2 humiliation and self-flagellation against Bayern Munich as they once did into carefully building up to what's widely acknowledged as the greatest Champions League final performance of all time at Wembley in 2011.
This era of Josep Maria Bartomeu's club presidency, and the previous one, appear to have been on a mission to root out every trace of common sense, existing wisdom, identity and any of the other elements that once made FC Barcelona the greatest team in the world.