The Premiership has returned from cold storage and with it the familiar refereeing controversies.
It's always a fiery affair when Rangers visit Aberdeen and Tuesday's match was no different.
The sides played out an entertaining 1-1 draw which left the champions just four points clear of Celtic in the title race but both teams had their complaints after the final whistle.
Dons manager Stephen Glass felt his side should have had not one but two spot kicks, while Rangers were left fuming over the red card handed out to Ryan Kent late on.
As the controversy rumbles on Record Sport has taken a look at the controversial incidents to analyse what referee Kevin Clancy got right and wrong.
Allan McGregor challenge
The first big talking point of the game came almost immediately before Rangers opened the scoring through Ianis Hagi.
A long ball sent Ryan Hedges scampering in behind, with goalkeeper Allan McGregor coming out to meet it.
The Aberdeen man got to it first, knocking the ball over his opponent, before going down in the box.
Clancy was unmoved by the howls of protest from the crowd and waved play on, with van Bronckhorst's men then taking the lead.
It's easy to see why the referee didn't spot it in real time, but replays clearly showed McGregor's trailing leg clattered into Hedges and sent him to the turf.
As a result Clancy should have pointed to the spot but the officials clearly felt that the goalkeeper hadn't actually made contact in his desperate dive at the ball.
It's one that VAR would have sorted out, but it's hard to argue anything other than this should have been an Aberdeen penalty.
Verdict: Penalty
Aberdeen penalty award
Aberdeen were awarded a spot kick in the second half as Lewis Ferguson grabbed the equaliser from 12 yards.
On a set piece it was ruled that the ball had struck the hand of Alfredo Morelos, and under the current laws the striker can have no complaints. And neither did he.
Where previously handball had to be deliberate, the rules have been updated to state that an offence is committed if "a player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player’s body movement for that specific situation".
Looking at the incident Morelos had one arm by his side but his left arm away from his body, and it's that arm which blocked the ball.
There was also some debate over whether a booking for El Bufalo was too harsh a sanction and again that may come down to the wording of the laws.
A booking for unsportsmanlike conduct should be handed out if a player "handles the ball to interfere with or stop a promising attack" while it's a red for "denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by a handball offence".
Clancy clearly felt that Morelos had stopped a promising Aberdeen attack but not prevented them from having a clear chance.
Verdict: Penalty and a yellow card
Aberdeen goal
While Clancy got the award of the penalty right, Aberdeen got away with one when it came to the actual kick.
Just before his strike the wind blew the ball backward, where the laws clearly state it must be stationary when the kick is taken.
Had a video replay been available the referee would surely have ordered the kick to be retaken.
Verdict: Retake the kick
Ryan Kent red card
Rangers' biggest grievance from the match came when Kent was shown two yellow cards in a matter of minutes.
The first came for a foul on Jonny Hayes after 76 minutes, and just seven minutes later the winger was given his marching orders for a foul on Scott Brown.
Kent could certainly feel aggrieved for the first booking he received.
The laws grade fouls as careless, reckless or using excessive force. For the first a free-kick is sufficient, the second brings a booking and the third is punished by a red card.
While it was a foul on Hayes, the Rangers man was guilty of only a barge in the back which would surely fall under careless - a lack of attention or consideration when making a challenge - rather than the definition for reckless which is "when a player acts with disregard to the danger to, or consequences for, an opponent".
For the second though Kent can't really complain.
Though the contact he made on Brown may have been minimal, and the Aberdeen captain certainly made the most of it, Kent went into the challenge with his studs showing and did not play the ball.
Had there been excessive force or brutality that would warrant a straight red card, but Clancy clearly deemed it reckless (as defined above) and therefore awarded a second yellow.
Kent's red card is therefore harsh, but the winger could have been more cautious given he was on a booking.
Verdict: Not a red card
Borna Barisic bleeding
Another one which riled up the Rangers support was Borna Barisic being ordered off as his side defended a set piece.
The Croat was bleeding from his nose - which Brown was only too happy to point out - and sent to the sideline to get cleaned up.
The issue here is not so much with that, as the law states the referee must ensure "any player bleeding leaves the field of play".
However, Barisic had been bleeding for some time after a clash with Hayes and should have been sent to the sideline as soon as possible until Clancy was "satisfied that the bleeding has stopped and there is no blood on the equipment".
Verdict: Should have been dealt with sooner
