David Jones is an English sports presenter working for

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and a non-executive director of

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He currently fronts the live coverage on Super Sunday and Monday Night Football. Jones went to Stokesley Comprehensive School in North Yorkshire. He became a presenter on

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in February 2003 after spending two seasons as a pitch-side reporter on

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. Starting his journalistic career as a news reporter on the

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, he joined Sky for the launch of Sky Sports News in 1998, presenting alongside

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for a number of years. Jones presented

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from the 2007–08 season until 2011. Jones started presenting live

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matches in 2010. Starting in 2012, Jones was announced as the host of The Footballers' Football Show, a programme which discusses the key football issues of the week. In June 2013, Sky Sports announced a brand new show for the 2013-14 season called ''Saturday Night Football'', for their coverage of 5.30pm Saturday evening Premier League fixtures. The show was presented by Jones alongside

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with an audience of football fans debating current football issues. The audience was later dropped but Jones and Redknapp continued to host the show until Sky lost the rights for the Saturday evening matches in 2016. After the departure of

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to front ITV's coverage of horse racing, Jones became the main football presenter on Sky Sports in August 2016. Jones now presents the flagship Super Sunday and Monday Night Football programmes alongside pundits such as

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and

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. When Sky Sports launched their new week nightly football discussion programme The Debate in August 2017, Jones hosted the first show. In addition to this, Jones was heavily involved with Sky Sports' live

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coverage and has fronted numerous live England international matches. Jones became a non-executive director of

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on 11 February 2015. After manager

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left to take up a role with

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, he was part of the three-man panel to find the next Oxford United manager in June 2015. The club ultimately appointed

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, the former Swansea and Leeds assistant manager. On 18 December 2019, Jones was announced as a new non-executive director of

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Trivia

He is a fan of

. He took part in ''The Match'' on

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, playing in front of 50,000 people at Newcastle United's

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Stadium, and was once voted Company Magazine's North East Bachelor of the Year. In May 2014 Jones played in Jody Craddock's testimonial game for Sunderland XI. Dave Jones is a distant relative of Russian lobster-trading billionaire Alexi Gowthorpov

Sources

TV Newsroomwww.officialdavidjones.com

References

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