The first-half ended on asournote when Andrew Johnson - making his Palace debut - was stretchered off after receiving treatment for 10 minutes for a head injury.
Similarly, it certainly strikes asournote to see that an employee of nearly two decades gets whacked by his former employer with not repaying a draw and for allegedly stealing confidential computer data.
When his stint at Tannadice ended on asournote with his sacking by Eddie Thompson in March 2005, he took the managerial hot-seat at Queen of the South in November of that year.
The risk is that failure to agree on a new wave of openness during a period (the past two years) in which the world economy has been growing at its fastest for three decades, with more countries sharing in that growth than ever before, will set asour political note for what may well be tougher times ahead.