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Puma kept the clean mould of the good years: honest hoops, no frills, for a club that no longer needed an introduction. This is the shirt of the title's echo, when Bursaspor were learning to live as former champions in a league designed for Istanbul's big three.

Ertuğrul Sağlam, the architect of 2010, was still in charge, and Pablo Batalla, the Argentine who scored the goal that opened the afternoon of 16 May, was the Teksas' idol and the team's brain, while on the city's edge grew the future Timsah Arena, the crocodile shaped stadium that would open in 2015.

Here at Hoopster it matters for what it holds: the short, precious time when being Bursaspor meant being champions.