KCs comments about the referee in the Chron sum the situation up perfectly for me. He said (in summary) that applying the law by dishing out soft yellow cards early in the game then leaves nowhere to go later on when things heat up a bit. Curle suggested that he wished our nemesis would learn a bit from this and use a more common sense approach and let the game flow a bit more.
Not sure whether that's ever going to happen though!
Which ones were the 'soft' early yellow cards? 21', 25', 38' or 41'? Or do we stop having yellow cards in the first half?
All four were fully justified and mandatory.
That was despite he issued the first he had provided verbal warnings to a number of players from both sides that could have attracted cautions.