He also presented live matches for the BBC and either worked as a presenter or reporter at all 10 of the major international tournaments from 1990 until 2008. He was a stand-in presenter on both Match of the Day (since the start of the Premier League in 1992) and Match of the Day 2 (since the show started in 2004) and became the BBC's England reporter in 2007. As well as covering football, Stubbs also fronted the BBC's darts coverage, co-hosted the BBC's snooker coverage with Hazel Irvine and presented and reported on other BBC sports programmes, such as "Grandstand" and "Sportsnight". In 2009, Stubbs left the BBC after over 26 years, to join ESPN. Stubbs said "The opportunity of joining one of the world's leading sports broadcasters on day one of the new ESPN channel in the UK was just too good to turn down." During the Liverpool – Wolverhampton Wanderers game on Boxing Day 2009 he was taken ill at half time and taken to hospital as a precaution. He presented ESPN's live coverage of the 2011, 2012, and 2013 FA Cup finals with pitch side build up and post match coverage. Following the demise of ESPN UK, Stubbs joined newly created BT Sport as its lead reporter. Stubbs left BT in 2016 and joined Talksport, though he is no longer working for the station and instead working for their digital only offshoot Talksport 2. Stubbs has been a big supporter of "Sport Relief" and has become the project's action hero. In 2002, he was dropped 100 feet into a pile of boxes; in 2004, he was suspended from a crane, and swung into a giant ball of dung; and, in 2006, was tied to a post and bombarded by 15,000 bouncy balls. In 2007, Stubbs took part in "Comic Relief does Fame Academy", and made it to the last five, before being struck down by an upper respiratory tract infection. Despite his illness, he still performed twice on the night, before being voted out by three of his fellow students so he could go home and recover. Stubbs also takes part in the Great North Run each year for charity, and is an honorary member of Gateshead Harriers.