Juventus were simply too streetwise and too experienced, playing with the tenacity and knowhow that took them to last season's final, while breaking the resolve of a team who have just established a club record of winning 11 consecutive league games.
But the country's masters face a dilemma: the very technology, communications and knowhow that are boosting national fortunes also threaten to undermine the old power structure.China in the 21st century, contemplating the pros and cons of the internet?
If that sounds like a dangerous comparison then Stones is still some way short of the defensive knowhow that once compelled the sportswriter David Miller to observe that trying to find a way past Moore was like searching for the exit from Hampton Court maze.
" We have presented a number of proposals, concepts, ways forward, that we think are very thoughtful and acknowledge the tremendous scientific knowhow that Iran has, but at the same time really does mean that Iran must address the international community's concerns".
Villas-Boas's attempt to integrate youthful dynamism will take time – which is a commodity not regularly associated with Chelsea managers – and it was Liverpool's superior knowhow that illuminated the occasion.
"We need something much wider and much deeper: a transparency revolution so that ordinary people can see that governments in poor countries get the tax receipts they are owed from international businesses, as well as the life-changing investment and technological knowhow that companies bring".
"Halfway through the second half it was good for us, but they [Warrington] had the experience and the knowhow, and that bit of speed at the ruck as well to create some momentum.
And partly also because the foreign buyers hope that they are buying not just bricks and mortar but also knowhow, that they can take a bit of that new economy back to headquarters.
We take the knowhow, the skills that we never commercialised, and hundreds of millions of pounds of research, and apply it to new markets".
