Under fire from ministers on several fronts, the Football Association could certainly do with some visionary leadership right now. Step forward Rupert Lowe, a man for clear blue sky thinking if ever there was one, as demonstrated by his plans to turn rugby World Cup winner Clive Woodward into director of football at Southampton.
But senior football figures, who received a draft of Lowe's blueprint for the future of the governing body, have been left wondering if it's a spoof.
The document, which has been leaked to On The Inside, details Lowe's plans to "streamline" and "modernise" the FA in an effort to remove the threat of a regulator. He calls for the FA's current council and committee structure to be scrapped as it is "no longer capable of managing the game at professional level and at the grass roots".
In its place Lowe wants a new four-tier body comprising of an FA council, a supervisory board, a divisional board and a working group.
Each divisional board would be divided into three further boards to deal with rules and compliance, the grass roots and the professional game.
The working group would then be split into a further three committees.
"The clarity and transparency should be mirrored in a streamlined and accountable executive acting on clearly defined mandates from the divisional boards," Lowe concludes. At least that's clear then.