The dumping of Tony Labbozzetta as chairman of Soccer Australia has hastened the winds of change.
His successor, 52-year-old Sydney accountant and former Labbozzetta supporter Ian Knop, is the fourth person to hold the post in the past five years.
Knop is today expected to announce former New South Wales Premier Nick
Greiner as the association's new president - replacing another former NSW Premier, Neville Wran.
Other sweeping changes are certain: Frank Lowy, Westfield chairman and Australia's second-richest man, and former tennis great Evonne Cawley are mooted as candidates for two vacancies on the board.
Lowy helped to establish the national league in 1977. Cawley has a close interest in the game - her son Morgan is on the books of NSL club Sydney Olympic.
Knop must work quickly to stabilise what many saw as a sinking ship under Labbozzetta because he faces re-election at November's annual meeting.
Labbozzetta has hit out at the way he was dumped duringa meeting on Saturday.
He alleged that former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett had convinced four key stakeholders at the meeting to turn on the man who had played a major role in the sport since 1977.
But in 1994 an investigation by Justice Donald Stewart found Labbozzetta was unfit to be commissioner of the Australian Soccer Federation.
He had been under a cloud since the sale of a Marconi player to Belgian club Brugge in 1991 and more recently faced allegations that he gave favourable treatment to marketing company International Entertainment Corporation, of which he is a director.
