"Half-time marriage proposals
If there is one thing guaranteed to bring warring supporters together during the heat of a match it is some guy on the pitch asking his girlfriend if she wants to marry him. The collective sense of anguish is tangible among a group of thousands who have no interest in seeing such a gesture having just spent the previous 45 minutes hurling abuse at each other. Then there is the discomfort felt on behalf of the recipient who has basically been emotionally blackmailed into saying "Yes" whether she, or he, is ready to do so. The only good to come from such an act is the chanting of "You don't know what you're doing" that often sweeps across a stadium as soon as a proposer gets down on one knee."