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Chris Bascombe is a North West football reporter for the Daily Telegraph.
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. 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. He was presented the award by Bill Kenwright.
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, boycotted in Liverpool following its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. When some fans made violent threats to Bascombe, 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" Following the closure of the News of the World, Bascombe joined the Daily Telegraph in 2011.
Bascombe was the ghostwriter of Jamie Carragher's autobiography Carra.
Works
- Best XI Liverpool - co-author.
- Carra: My Autobiography. ISBN 0552157422. - ghostwriter.
- Bascombe, Chris; Judd, Nick; Lyttleton, Ben; Moynihan, Leo; Tomkins, Paul (19 December 2012). Best XI Liverpool. Calm Publishing. ISBN 978-0957129153.