Jason is a former schoolboy international footballer, who played professionally with Peterborough United in the UK and in the League of Ireland with Limerick. He has been coached by Billy Hamilton (Northern Ireland World Cup player 1982) and Sam Allardyce (Bolton, Sunderland & Newcastle manager) at Limerick, Chris Turner RIP (Peterborough United manager who took the team to the Championship in the 90s through successive promotions) and Mark Lawrenson (former Liverpool and Ireland player, and former Peterboro manager).