After spending five years in charge of some of Fox’s highest-profile soccer broadcasts, Jonty Whitehead is leaving the network to return to his native England.
Whitehead is departing for personal reasons, and not of the bad kind. He and his wife simply wanted to return to England. They have lived abroad not only during Whitehead’s time at Fox, but also for three years before that when he was in charge of Al-Jazeera’s soccer coverage.
That is eight years of globetrotting in all, from Qatar to California and all manner of other places along the way.
“I think it’s the right time to move back, and catch up with things back in the U.