Swansea's 1-0 win over Burnley at Turn Moor on Saturday afternoon raised a number of questions. Is the first game of the season too soon to call a match a relegation six-pointer? Has Fernando Llorente come to the Premier League three seasons too late? If each club has an Icelandic player each, is it okay for the fans to do the 'Thunder Clap' from the Euros?
Tentative answers to those questions would read, in order; no, yes and no god, no please, make it stop. Actually, that last one isn't tentative at all - the FA should frankly consider point deductions for any set of fans who kick it off.
7 - Swansea are unbeaten in their last seven Premier League games played in the month of August (W5 D2 L0). Keen.
If Swansea City's number eight scores a late winner in a game, which probably should have been a draw, is it acceptable to call it a less than Fer result?
The main question arising from the game, though, was an almost existential one. Was the game so tedious thanks to the two teams shaking off the summer rust, or was the game so bad because Swansea and Burnley are, fundamentally, bad football teams?
Ultimately, the answer to the question probably reads 'both', but if there is a lesson to be taken from Hull City's earlier win over champions Leicester, it may be that teams deserve more than 90 minutes and a swathe of speculation before they're judged so definitely.
Leroy Fer put's the #Swans 1-0 up vs #Burnley on the opening day of the season #BURSWA pic.twitter.com/3eWyqQN1az
Some players managed to stand out of the mediocrity though - for better and for worse. Lukasz Fabianski managed to pull out some on both sides of that deal in the second half, nearly costing his side with two massive moments of misjudgement just minutes before pulling off a tremendous one-handed save from Sam Vokes.
Federico Fernandez only managed the mistake without the redemption though, firing over the bar from all of three yards out and the goal at his mercy to cement his place on blooper reel DVDs for years to come. The only consolation for the Argentine was that - unlike in last season's opener - he didn't actually score past his own goalkeeper.
GOOOOOAL!! FER!!! pic.twitter.com/CpTv6c6inc
Indeed, the only scorer of the game was Leroy Fer in the dying minutes, just when it looked as though Burnley would begin their return to the top flight with a point at home. A disappointing lack of spectacle all round, the Dutchman latching onto the rebound from a Tom Heaton save before tapping home and wheeling away in celebration.
Where now for the Clarets?
Lineups
Burnley XI: Heaton; Ward, Mee, Keane, Lowton; Jones, Marney, Boyd, Arfield; Vokes, Gray
Subs: Robinson, Tarkowski, Gudmundsson, Jutkiewicz, Kightly, Ulvestad, Darikwa.
Swansea City XI: Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Kingsley; Britton, Cork, Fer, Barrow, Routledge; Llorente
Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, van der Hoorn, Fulton, Dyer, Montero, Sigurdsson.
"?For more from Chris when he's not writing on 90min, follow him on Twitter at @ThatChris1209!