FlyingHigh wrote:
Early on, "more than a game" meant showing footballers not just as footballers. it was blokes in jeans and bomber jackets being themselves with blokey humour, and there it still a market for this as witnessed by the Front Bar. They had personalities because they weren't media-training-bashed out of it (similarly problem with recent ex-cricketers that have become commentators).
Towards the end of the 90's "More than a game" became players dressing in suits and Eddie pushing the business side eg board issues, membership drives etc, and as an antidote to this, the humour had to be written into it, with crass, put-on skits that got tired pretty quickly.
The show went downhill once Trevor Marmalade left it.