Sometimes a player deserves a red card just for stupidity. Kicking the ball away at a freekick when you're already on a yellow is one of those times.
Ref got it right, and the postgame wailing and gnashing of teeth is great.
When I first met my brother-in-law he was a Millwall fan, next time I met him he was an Arsenal fan. So sometimes fans can be disloyal knobheads too.
Or maybe I just had a negative opinion of the guy because he was a Londoner and married my sister.