Sid Lowe: Barcelona have got used to humbling exits but this may be the worst of all

Theirs feels like a footballing obituary written many times before, a chronicle foretold if not always heeded and not always finished.

Barcelona's Ronald Araujo reacts after the third goal of Bayern during the Champions League in Munich. Picture: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

There were a little under eight hours until kick-off and Joan Laporta had come from Munich cathedral.

“You have to have faith,” he said, heading into Kafer restaurant and out of the snow, but faith is not enough. And although they had always suspected as much, it still hurt when the inevitable happened.