"My thesis is that soccer is an amalgam of random processes whose net effect produces rare events—those more-or-less unpredictable events spread more-or-less un

"My thesis is that soccer is an amalgam of random processes whose net effect produces rare events—those more-or-less unpredictable events spread more-or-less uniformly in time." What? What proportion of events in soccer is he proposing are random? This seems a very poor start for any kind of examination of sport whatsoever.