It seems the biggest data burn, as Sweed Mind points in the other thread, is at startup.
Mine used 14 Mb just to start up.
And then, note that any time you switch away from the app and come back to it, it reloads. Few apps do that, they have a way of holding on to their state while being in background. Every such refresh is 2-4 Mb. Just browsing around fixtures and rearranging the squad burned another 3 Mb. I no longer think the live games burn all this data, I think the app is very wasteful in how it handles data at all steps.