Chris Bascombe

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.

In 2007 Bascombe, a Liverpool F.C. fan was threatened by Liverpool supporters and dubbed a "Judas" and a "sell out" for moving from the Liverpool Echo to News of the World, a paper boycotted by Liverpool supporters due to its coverage of the Hillsborough Disaster. The attack on the journalist was described by The Guardian and former Sun journalist Roy Greenslade 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 - ghostwriter.