Saturday Sundae: Arsenal fans and Joe Cole get that familiar feeling

MAN OF THE DAY Portsmouth's kitman: Sourcing shirts for 13 debutants in Pompey's matchday squad of 15, 10 of whom were signed on Thursday. Portsmouth fielded a first XI made up entirely of players making their debuts – quite possibly the first time that has happened in the Football League since the opening day back in 1888. FACT OF THE DAY QPR conceded the last goal of last season and the first goal of this season. Eight minutes of playing time separated Sergio Agüero's title-winner in Manchester and Michu's opener for Swansea. BULLET: DODGED But 5-0 winners Swansea shouldn't shrug off difficult-second-season-syndrome just yet. Last season Bolton won 4-0 away at QPR on the opening day, then went down. LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE The last time Norwich were hammered by five goals or more on the opening day, they went on to win the title. Granted, it was in League One and they had to take the manager of the team that beat them to do it. Martin Jol to Carrow Road? IT'S THE HOPE THAT KILLS YOU Opening day is the only time of the season when fans can let themselves float on the cool and gentle waters of optimism, ignoring the background roar of the ugly rapids of realism lurking just downstream. Spare a thought, then, for the fans of Exeter City , who were sent tumbling into those raging waters of misery indecently fast: going 3-0 down at home to Morecambe inside 32 minutes. TREND OF THE DAY Goalkeeping errors: Reading's Adam Federici and QPR's Robert Green among those guilty of greasy-palmed fumbling. PLUS çA CHANGE … Arsenal struggling to score at home against "inferior opposition", Arsène Wenger berating the fourth official about time‑wasting … some things never change. INEVITABILITY OF THE DAY The return of Joe Cole at Liverpool lasting just nine minutes due to a hamstring twang. BEST PUNDIT Paul Merson – assessing QPR's defence by shouting: "It's the three scrooges here." PLUS: ANSWERED QUESTION Can football ever grasp the Olympic spirit? At half-time, yes. Among the guests at Saturday's games: gold medallist boxers Luke Campbell at Hull and Nicola Adams at West Ham, rower Andrew Triggs Hodge at Leicester, gymnast Sam Oldham and hockey star Helen Richardson at Forest, plus 400m finalist Martyn Rooney and some Games Makers at Selhurst Park.