Post Football
Married to Jan (née King), and with a daughter Georgia, Jones has spent most of his post-football life running hotels in inner suburban Melbourne (including "Percy's Bar" in Lygon st, Carlton during the 80's).
The most famous of which was run in conjunction with Adrian Gallagher (at 551 Nicholson St, Carlton) and was called "The Blush and Stutter" after Gallagher's infinite propensity for blushing at anything, and Jones' quite severe speech impediment (mainly a hesitancy that is more of a stammer, than the repetitive staccato of a stutter).
His speech impediment also explains why all of Jones' valuable and insightful post-football commentating was conducted through the print media, rather than radio or TV.
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Famous quotes containing the words post and/or football:
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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—Donald Hall (b. 1928)