I travelled to the Canary Islands for my birthday to watch a handful of matches in Tenerife and Gran Canaria.

On a trip to Hungary in July 2010, I photographed two famous grounds in Budapest that have since been lost to history.

A trip to south-eastern Spain in 2019 saw me squeeze in three football matches over a couple of days in Murcia and Alicante.

After visiting Lithuania’s KGB museum in the morning, I rounded off my 48 hours in Vilnius with a local second-division match.

When a friend asked if I’d like to fly to Timisoara in Romania for £20, I said yes practically before he’d finished the question.