[madsteve]

Good post, MS!

I thought the ref progressively lost the plot as the game went on. I'm not saying our lot were innocent but the Ref certainly seemed like he made it up to them for the earlier red.

5 Brentford players surrounded the ref as soon as Helan committed that second challenge, he caved to the home crowd and players as he did with the first BS yellow he showed Helan.

While the ref didn't have a howler or anything like that, he definitely showed no consistency with the cards. His poor carding had a large effect on the game for both teams.

Mcormacks nasty challenge bore a yellow. Buttons aggressive shove was also seen by the ref and only received a yellow? That's a straight red every day. I can bet you that if the ref had seen Hunt commit an act of violence we'd have had another red. That ref was never going to give them a second red, no matter what they did.

Completely unacceptable to be influenced by fans & players, to the point you're undermining the linesman in order to make it up to Brentford.

I don't think the referee was biased against us. We have benefited from his decisions on several occasions as I posted before the match. He was inconsistent. The first red card was wrong for the three reasons I stated but Wednesday players put pressure on him because they thought it might work & it did. After that, players from both sides pressured the referee at every decision. On the first Helan yellow card, the assistant clearly indicated "play on" but the referee from further away decided it was a foul & yellow card. The second yellow was pretty clear.

Regarding the Button incident & the Hunt incident, I think the referee wanted to avoid a third red card so downgraded one & pretended he hadn't seen the other.