for a second term as president of the Bermuda Football Association -- if the club affiliates are prepared to have him back.

The BFA's annual general meeting will be held at Warwick Workmen's Club on Monday at 7.30 p.m.

The association has circulated a nominating list to affiliates and should the full slate of executives listed be accepted then it could see Marshall returning if nobody else makes a challenge for the top position.

However, Marshall does not intend to alter a demand recently made to club affiliates to have more "professionals'' appointed to the association. From the day he took over he insisted that the association is a business and should be run that way, and his views have not changed.

"We've got to be more professional. The association has more demands these days and we don't have the volunteer-type like we use to and in order to be successful we simply have to have decent people in there,'' said the president.

Last summer, Marshall was appointed president unapposed after club affiliates publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the direction Donald Dane had taken the association, which then had a deficit of $90,000. Dane did not run again.

Marshall's immediate task was to improve the BFA's financial woes and to concentrate on making improvements at the domestic level as well as streamlining the administration -- but he admits that much of this has been plagued by Bermuda's involvement in the World Cup.

"Basically, the World Cup has been a nightmare. We were extremely grateful for the $20,000 we got from the Bank of Bermuda but we are going to need a heck of a lot more. It will probably take something like $200,000 for this round robin coming up, and with the country in a recession it's going to be tough,'' he said.

While admitting that he is proud of the fine run by the Bermuda national team in the World Cup, Marshall stressed that more planning must be done before Bermuda enters major events in the future.