Your physical players (Brobbey, Zhaka, Ballard) were easily the match of ours. It's the powderpuff ones who acted like they were entitled to a free kick and a cuddle whenever anyone touched them that people are objecting to. I thought it a weird tactic as any time you got it down and played...
Different fan viewpoints are always fun to read!
I think if you combine the two views you have a fair summary if the refs performance. He let the physical players get on with it whereas he was whistle happy whenever any other player came into contact. It impacted the flow of what should have...
VAR told him to look at #1 then he got it right. It's the sort of decision a ref should be using VAR for, very hard to judge that on the pitch.
Even without any of these moments though the ref was awful. The media always highlight the big moments but it's when a ref drags the game into the mud...
It's how we did it for every game until about 2 years ago. If you want to know where your seat is then check the excellent View from my Seat website
https://aviewfrommyseat.co.uk/venue/Select+Car+Leasing+Stadium/blocks/
5k Bees with a high % travelling back via that route though. It may not be simple getting back to Reading Station as you might expect either by bus or train