Just watched the highlights. Comic defending for the first - bordering on schoolboy stuff. The second - there may have been a pull on Howard's arm/shoulder but it was slight if there was one and that still shouldn't have happened. Also, if there was a touch on him, he should be going down, other keepers do it and get the free kick. They don't punch it into the net.
The third - it wasn't a penalty and the ref should have realised that from the way the ball moved. Poor decision, Howard unlucky not to save it.
Vernon scored a cracker, a confident finish and was good to see one of our strikers knew where the goal was while their back was to goal.
Just ashame Hartley's excellent free kick didn't go in (he thought the keeper wasn't getting there by his reaction), could maybe have salvaged something from it.