Modelling bookings in association football

In this report, we describe preliminary investigations into, and opinions on, the subject of statistical analysis of bookings in association football. More specifically, we consider whether more developed methodology for modelling goals can be re-purposed to predict the number of bookings in a given match, and, if so, how. A more thorough description of the topic and a more rigorous analysis of our modelling experiments will appear in forthcoming work.