1. Totally with you
2. No. Spirit of the game is for things the law doesn't cover and then we look at what does football expect. The player has to take responsibility here. WBA were all over Palace, looked the most likely, Palace were getting frustrated and all my money was on a WBA win. All responsibility for the loss lies with the player.
The only other thing I couldn't put my finger on, and only explanation for initial yellow was player reaction. There was none at all. Usually somethibg like this triggers players but it just didn't. Was very bizarre incident.
There was very little force behind the 'kick out' hence the player reaction. I think everyone was quite happy with the yellow initially. Not enough to overturn it for me but its a subjective call.
The player has to take full responsibility of course.