Northern Ireland 2-0 Slovakia (World Cup Qualifiers) Day two of my road (and air) trip watching international football and it's Northern Ireland's turn as Michael O'Neill's men host Slovakia at Windsor Park. No sooner have I packed my bags and left Hampden, am I in the air, next morning bright and breezy landing at Belfast International after a short Easy Jet flight from Glasgow. It's 8am and I'm already in the Hertz queue for a hire car, I can't check in to my B&B until 1p

Northern Ireland 5-0 Bulgaria (UEFA Nations League Group Stages) I'm at East Midlands Airport where I bump into Brummie Rob. He's a Villa fan and football mad and just so happens to be on my Aerlingus flight to Belfast. The chat is football, he talks of Villa's weaknesses at right back and a possible move from Villa Park, PSR struggles, Champions League loving and an up and coming striker named Rory Wilson who's banging the goals in at youth team level. Northern Ireland host

Linfield 3-2 Stjarnan (UEFA Europa Conference Qualifying) Belfast is a small town, the population almost of my home city of Nottingham, but unlike back in blighty, everywhere you turn you see a football ground, it feels it punches above it's weight in comparison to many cities in England, it feels football is at its heartbeat of the city, even the local airport is named after George Best, the homes of Crusaders, Cliftonville, Glentoran, Linfield, all around ten or fifteen min

Northern Ireland 0-1 Kazakhstan (UEFA European Championships Qualifiers) So before we start... Kazakhstan of course is in Central Asia, not Europe, but as a former Soviet nation (population 19m), they long applied to participate in UEFA competition, switching from the Asian Federation back in 2002, and ever since have struggled amidst 'whipping boy' status on the international stage, but this year in particular, under their cool and rather Russian looking 'Pep-a-like' in Mago