Exactly. We were given a lot of soft penalties that season, but that's not something which enters in the frame of a good conspiracy theory, and thus, it won't be acknowledged...
I think the problem with conspiracy theories is that they don't take account all the available data. We know that referees can make mistakes and we know that there can be inconsistencies. We only tend to notice them when they affect a result against us but in truth they go both ways and largely (but not always entirely) cancel out.
Off the top of my head, on the minus side we should have had a penalty against Leicester and there was a goal against Arsenal that was wrongly ruled offside. Those both resulted in 2 dropped points but that was because we didn't score any more. There were other incidents where we were hard done by but it didn't make any difference. On the plus side, I can think of that goal against Burnley that was actually offside but still given (although I don't think that made a difference) and there were a couple of penalties that we were given to us that, on another day, I have seen waived on.
I think the biggest factor against Leicester was actually the weather. The snow was causing the ball to slow down excessively and that is a big disadvantage to our forwards who rely on pace to get past defenders and a godsend to those same defenders who were relying on slowing us down. That's just bum luck and it happens. We have also had good fortune the other way - not least of all the 2 free points against Everton with that outrageous goal at the end (FWIW, I'm still laughing about that.)
We are still in a far better position than we were last weekend. That extra point lead is significant and the number of remaining games are starting to dwindle.
Next up is West Ham. Currently, no snow is forecast for London on Monday and our own fitness situation should be improving. Time to put this one to bed and "keep buggering on".