If last Wednesday night's Festival of the Boot at Suncorp Stadium in Brissie taught us anything (besides that the Blues might as well chuck it in for good and take up knitting), it's that Queenslanders take their sport very seriously.

So it's a brave man that dares meddle with one of their sporting codes.

Step forward Daniel Cobb – businessman and sports entrepreneur extraordinaire, who has recently been anointed interim chief executive of the A-League team, Brisbane Roar.

Brisbane Roar fans: passionate, numerous and vocal. Bradley Kanaris

It's an appointment that has raised plenty of eyebrows in the Aussie soccer world, not least because when it comes to being involved in administration of the beautiful game, Cobb has what is referred to in sporting parlance as "form".

The Melbourne-based businessman, managing director of a company called Clean Energy Enterprises, has taken the reigns at the Roar – a club that despite a large and passionate home-town fan-base and a habit of drawing the sorts of crowds that would make your average NRL official drool is in a sorry financial and administrative state.