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Ben FisherTrippier: \u2018The Championship is relentless \u2026 it\u2019s totally different to the Premier League\u2019Kieran Trippier has played under some of the biggest names in football and won La Liga at Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. Photograph: Brett Patzke\/WWFC\/Wolves\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to sit here and lie, I wasn\u2019t expecting it,\u201d Kieran Trippier says. \u201cBut it\u2019s the club\u2019s decision. I had good chats with Rob, of course, but I\u2019m here to play for Wolves. There are many surprises in football and that certainly was a surprise, I\u2019m not going to deny that. But I just cracked on, I was with my kids on holiday, training in Mallorca and just looking forward to day one in pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read Ben Fisher\u2019s full interview with the former England international:<\/p>\n
Share<\/a> First up, big news in the murky world of football politics from Matt Hughes this morning:<\/p>\n Oceania declares support for Infantino in boost for Fifa president but New Zealand breaks ranksFifa president Gianni Infantino at the Women\u2019s World Cup draw ahead of the 2023 tournament in Australia and New Zealand. Photograph: Shane Wenzlick\/Reuters<\/p>\n The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has declared their support for Gianni Infantino following demands for the Fifa president to resign from Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation in a development that further highlights world football\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n After a meeting of its executive committee in Fiji on Wednesday, the OFC issued a statement on Friday praising \u201cthe progress achieved over the last decade\u201d by Fifa in its first public comments since the abandoned World Cup sell-off plan emerged this month.<\/p>\n In another sign of division however, the OFC\u2019s biggest member and only nation to qualify for this summer\u2019s World Cup, New Zealand, broke ranks with the confederation by withdrawing their backing for Infantino and calling for an independent review of the Fifa Forward Enterprise plan, which has been demanded by the three rebel groups.<\/p>\n Full story:<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m ready for this, are you ready for this? Surely it\u2019s too hot for the EFL to be back. Can we push it until after another Test series or some more balmy nights of athletics?<\/p>\n Ready or not, tonight Wolves striker Ra\u00fal Jim\u00e9nez will likely be jeered by the travelling Blackburn Rovers support for daring to be on the field as Mexico lost to England at the Azteca, shirts will be removed and we will be one game closer to finding out if C\u00e9sar Peixoto can cut it \u2018over here\u2019. The only green grass in the country right now can be found at football stadiums, so it will be nice to see that at least.<\/p>\n![\"Matt](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Matt_Hughes.png\")
Matt Hughes<\/p>\n