Chris Bascombe

Chris Bascombe is a North West football reporter for the Daily Telegraph.[1]

Chris Bascombe
NationalityBritish
OccupationSports journalist

Bascombe worked at the Liverpool Echo for seven years, whilst there he won Sports Writer of the Year in the North West for five successive years.[2] He is also the recipient of the 'Merseyside Journalist of the Year' and the 'Sports Journalist of the Year' award at the Merseyside Media Network Journalism Award.[3] He was presented the award by Bill Kenwright.[3]

In 2007 Bascombe moved to the News of the World. The move angered some Liverpool fans as the paper was the Sunday stablemate of The Sun newspaper,[4] boycotted in Liverpool following its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.[5] When some fans made violent threats to Bascombe,[2] he received support from other fans and the football club, whilst the attack was described by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian as "frankly stupid" and "completely at odds with the facts"[4] Following the closure of the News of the World, Bascombe joined the Daily Telegraph in 2011.[6]

Bascombe was the ghostwriter of Jamie Carragher's autobiography Carra.[6][7]

Works
  • Best XI Liverpool - co-author.[8]
  • Carra: My Autobiography. ISBN 0552157422. - ghostwriter.
gollark: "Why is there the universe and not nothing?" Sure. But then "why god and not nothing?".
gollark: Saying "god did it" explains nothing. Why god?
gollark: I am going to randomly interject now. Muahahaha.
gollark: A lot of time you can avoid memorizing things by just deriving them.
gollark: I do mostly agree, although I've had quite good teachers so things.

References
  1. "Chris Bascombe". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  2. "Liverpool reporter attacked for joining Sun publisher". Press Gazette. 17 September 2009. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. "Bascombe scoops double at Merseyside awards". Press Gazette. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  4. Greenslade, Roy (18 September 2007). "Liverpool fans wrong to attack football writer joining News of the World". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  5. "Liverpool's 23-year boycott of The Sun newspaper". BBC News. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  6. "Telegraph makes Mersey move for Bascombe". Sporting Journalists. 20 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  7. Krishnaiyer, Kartik (28 October 2009). "EPL Talk Podcast: Chris Bascombe". EPL Talk. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  8. Bascombe, Chris; Judd, Nick; Lyttleton, Ben; Moynihan, Leo; Tomkins, Paul (19 December 2012). Best XI Liverpool. Calm Publishing. ISBN 978-0957129153.


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