He also commentates on rugby league for Grandstand and Sunday Grandstand, and covers football for BBC Radio Five Live. He cut his footballing teeth as a commentator for BBC Radio Leeds before joining BBC Radio 2 sport and, later, Radio Five Live where he fronted his own radio programme, Champion's Sport. Euro 96 was his first major championship as a TV commentator, and he also worked on the 1998 World Cup Finals in France. It's fast-moving and about getting the names out and the pitch geography of where the action is.
Radio is very much a descriptive art.
With television, there is no point in describing things that people can see for themselves. Jon lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and children.