There was an overwhelming sense of familiarity about this season’s Champions League campaign – not only in the identity of the winners, as Egypt’s Al Ahly won the title for the fourth time in five years, but also in the measured way in which they went about their business, again not overtly impressive in the group stage but still qualifying comfortably before surging through the knockout stages to take the trophy.
They edged Esperance from Tunisia by a lone,
