Dynasty – there is no accepted definition of what constitutes one but you just know one when you see it. The word is coveted in the National Football League. It is not enough to win a solitary SuperBowl; the teams that go down in history are those who create a dynasty. Vince Lombardi’s Packers; Chuck Noll’s Steelers and Bill Belichick’s Patriots – they live on, still mentioned whatever era of the sport is being considered.

Whether this Saracens team is yet a dynasty is open to debate when you look at the great sides of the past. Bath, pre-professionalism and Leicester and Wasps in the pro-era are the benchmarks and the north London club have not, yet, reached their number of trophies. What isn’t debatable is that by taking their second, successive European Champions’ Cup, beating Clermont Auvergne 28-17, they are on their way to creating one.

You would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for the magnificent Clermont Auvergne supporters and players; so many finals, so many losses – yet, put simply, they didn’t deserve to win.

For most of the game they were made to play in their own half, under pressure and were second best. Only sporadically did they manage to get the sort of quick ball that has made them so lethal and from it they scored two tries that kept them in touch on the scoreboard. It remained tense and tight score-wise right into the final ten minutes but in truth Saracens were in control of the outcome for nearly all the game.