Soccer stats

I’m also a football (henceforth referred to as “soccer” for all you Americans) fan, incidentally, so I thought this thread on whether it was possible to apply sabermetrics to soccer was quite interesting, particularly with the stuff posted by Voros McCracken, he of the finding that pitchers have very little control over batting averages on balls put in play. Who knew? I’m intrigued by the potential for analysis coming up in soccer…