I'm not a sports spectator myself so I do like to organise an appointment during a big event, gardai are busy and little chance of bumping into someone that knows me.
However I have run into some problems, like the girl I want to see is sports mad herself, or she expects to be quite for that hour or two, so she has pencilled in some me time, or she just doesn't believe that there's an Irish guy that doesn't plan to watch the all Ireland final and considers me as a time waster.