After Kosovo, Ireland will have played 53 of the other 54 Uefa nations – just one more to go…

We were going to suggest we have for you the most perfect football-related quiz question in the history of time, but on reflection there’s a chance you’ll hear it so often this week a trickier poser might be: which Irish striker, whose name rhymes with Boy Carrot, plays for Real Betis?

Anyway, after the Republic of Ireland play Kosovo in Pristina on Thursday evening, in what will be the nations’ first ever senior meeting, there will be but a single Uefa member our men have yet to play either a competitive or friendly international.