He really was. He had no authority at all and failed to take control of situations. There were three bad challenges in the first 15 minutes, one of which was an obviously cynical pull on Edozie to prevent a breakaway which is as obvious a booking as you'll ever see, but he let them get away with murder.
Edozie then got pulled by the arm and bundled over in the box - no penalty. Again, a totally blatant foul but nothing given.
Then his failure to produce a card for that moment early in the second half was just bizarre.
And in the interests of balance, I do also think that Downes could/should have walked when in the second half he fouled their player then reacted badly and pushed him. Ordinarily I'd have had no complaints if he'd got sent off for that, but because of everything that he had let Norwich get away with prior to that he knew he just couldn't.
It was as weak and inept a refereeing display as you will ever see at this level.