I have learnt to level things out, stay chilled and remind myself there are some more important things in life (only just though). But last week had even calm old me frothing a little.

I had not got over the lack of a penalty award at the end of the Leicester game for a few days. Then the salt that rubbed into the gaping wound that stung.

The PGMOL confirming that we should have had two penalties did little to ease  the annoyance. Yet we had to move on. What more could we do? It would all be fair and evened out in the Stoke game, right?

The Stoke penalty was later revealed to be the wrong call (Image: PA Sport)

The first half performance only added to our woes. This was a self-inflicted cut though. Fair play to the boys for how they came out and gave a much better performance. It could not have been worse mind you.

To edge 3-2 in front felt like we had got out of jail. It was just a matter of holding on and then we could start to feel better about ourselves.

It is never that easy though. The penalty gods once again went against us and Stoke’s penalty was not even half the shout ours was at the end of the Leicester game.

Following that decision and the result, I was fuming  for the next day or so. Even more so when the good old PGMOL apologised again. They declared that the penalty decision was wrong. It felt like someone was on a wind up.

But these things come and go for every club. We have had soft penalties awarded to us. We will have more. But this was more than about wrong decisions being made. It was about the consequences.

If those decisions were wrong, then common sense should have prevailed as far a Cedric Kipre was concerned. It should have been considered with a degree of sympathy as to why he argued both cases of the wrong decisions.

His yellow cards should have been rescinded. Instead, he is in the middle of a two-game ban.

Unbelievably, matters were still to get worse. News of Leif Davis receiving a three-match ban was incredible.

The reported incident happened right in front of me. My second-row seat gave me the perfect viewpoint. I watch all the grappling for corners down the North Stand end with dismay at times with what players get away with.

Both Kieran McKenna and Mark Ashton have said they disagree with the Leif Davis ban (Image: Ross Halls)

I did not see any hair pulling. I saw Leif being kicked out at. I saw him shove Caleb Okoli to the ground. I found it unbelievable how such a big unit would then lie there holding his face and checking his hands for blood. His face was not touched at all, as far as I could see.

If Leif had been booked for the shove, then there would have been little complaint. Provided Okoli was booked at the same time for the kick. But of course, it was just another incident not seen by the officials in that game.

I could not blame Mark Ashton on Friday night for being annoyed and angry. I do not know how improvements can be made in these instances moving forward.

I used to run a football club many years ago and dealing with league officials is not the easiest of tasks.

But for the good of the game, something needs to happen. In some ways it has gone. It is no longer the sport I loved in my growing up years. There are too many wrongs, and it cost clubs points and potentially more.

Jack Clarke celebrates the match-sealing goal at Sheffield Wednesday – a good end to the week at lesat! (Image: Ross Halls)

Thankfully, Middlesbrough’s defeat at home to Charlton and then the early results on Saturday provided a little something to enthuse about. It was a case of just getting the job done at Sheffield Wednesday.

As we were the only team in the top five to win on Saturday, it felt like a small win at the end of a week where we suffered some big losses in those frustrating decisions.