Apart from the bozo away at Spennymoor the refereeing was incompetent and inconsistent rather than anything sinister.
Biggest issue for me is how easy it is to buy a free kick whilst at the same time deliberately disruptive petty fouls go unnoticed or unpunished.
This is why anti football tactics still work and are fairly widely used at this level whilst it’s much less prevalent in the EFL these days. In the Premier League it’s gone which is the biggest single benefit of VAR (arguably the only benefit).
At least part of the reason why quality alone isn’t guaranteed to bring success.
