Yet, for all that Spurs' blend was reminiscent of Mourinho's original Chelsea line-up, the visitors' class of 2013 summoned bite, urgency and, as a result, dominance after the interval.
After restricting Palace to speculative long-range efforts in a bright spell from the hosts at the end of the first half, the visitors' class told with two goals within seven minutes of the restart to kill the game.
This levy will hit middle-class visitors hardest a family of four would have to cough up an additional £80 for a fortnight's stay and angry tour operators fear it will drive away business; ABTA, the UK's largest travel association, even called it "a recipe for disaster".
Her pupils' difficulties aren't immediately evident to the visitor in class.
Villa were never required to recover from a first-leg deficit during their glorious 1981-82 European Cup campaign and it was obvious from early in this second leg that Barça were going to make it extremely difficult for them to do so now – and that if Villa did manage to infiltrate the visitors' high-class defence, Barça would immediately chop them down.
Traffic, though, was light in the high-up visitors' gallery, grade school classes here earlier having left too soon to watch history.
The visitors are pure class from Paris.
He called for chairs for us, and we sat down, like visitors to a class in session.
Even before Dele Alli shot them into the lead in the second minute the visitors looked a class above Norwich, two goals from Harry Kane garnishing a victory that enabled Mauricio Pochettino's men to leapfrog Arsenal into third place in the table and left Norwich grasping for security at the other end.
Although he and his wife, Marie, who died in 1986, never took a vacation (he said they never needed one) and he rarely left his post except to go bowling once a week, he had thousands of visitors: children on class trips, sightseers, lighthouse buffs, fishermen, Coast Guard personnel and the occasional historian, writer or photographer.
The visitors showed their class in the early stages and Newcastle keeper Tim Krul had to be alert to deny Lima after the attacker pulled off an inventive flick following full-back Andre Almeida's low cross.
