Chris Bascombe

“Only one player scored more for a single English club than me - Dixie Dean at EFC. Bill Shankly said he was the greatest goalscorer of all time. You can name them all the greats - Jimmy Greaves, Alan Shearer & the rest – but to be 2nd only to Dixie? Yes, I am proud of that.”

The legend Ian Rush on health, fresh perspectives on his career, the best centre-backs he faced and one of football’s greatest misquotes… telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

youtu.be/An6Q-T_9c0w?si… #MNF analysis of the problems Liverpool have when pressing the opposition 🔴 Is it solely the managers set up 🤷🏻‍♂️ or should the players be doing a lot more 🤔

OUR SOCIETY IS RUN BY INSANE PEOPLE FOR INSANE OBJECTIVES I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. And I think that's what I sussed when I was 16 and 12 way down the line. But I expressed it differently all through me life. It's the same thing I'm expressing all the time but now I can put it into that sentence: That I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know? If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government etcetera and the Russian, Chinese what they are actually trying to do, you know, and how what they think they're doing. I'd be very pleased to know what they think they're doing. I think they're all insane, you know, but I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that, you know? That's what's insane about it. I mean, don't you agree? #powertothepeople

Jake Tapper: Why is the White House splicing Iran war footage with clips from video games and movies?

Congratulations to James Milner. Premier League marathon man. telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Christmas shopping in Crosby, Waterloo or Liverpool? My new book, Not JUST About The Fall: 50 adventures in a post-punk paradise, is available in the wonderful @PritchardsBooks @WriteBlendbooks and @newsfromnowhere Not local? Order from publisher @EIBooksUk or the usual places

The love affair the hardcore Liverpool support has with their managers. What fanbase chooses a guy who’s been at the club 18 months & won 1 trophy over a guy who’s been there 8yrs & won everything 🤷🏻‍♂️ Liverpool. telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

2009 - Liverpool have won an away UEFA Champions League match without Mohamed Salah featuring for the first time since November 2009 at Debrecen, in what was Jamie Carragher's last ever Champions League match for the club. Choreographed.

Arsenal have looked the best team in the league by a long way so far this season, but Man City are still only five points behind. There’s a long way to go & Arsenal will need to keep their heads! It could be tested tomorrow after Aston Villa!! telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Are all those at this World Cup draw audience members or hostages? Pray they get home for Christmas.

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So, so good tonight in Liverpool. What a band. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com

Interview with England asst manager Anthony Barry: + Tuchel's 'God-given stardust' + How the England shirt should be like a 'cape' + How England need a 'heat-proof' style telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Congratulations Zoe and Stephen. A story that must be told. Nowell Oxland joined the Border Regiment but died at Gallipoli and didn’t live to see his work published. Chasing the Phantom is available from @BookendsCarl (and other good Cumbrian independent bookshops).

Hugo Ekitike has played alongside & studied some of the greatest players of this era. He has the hunger to reach heights of his own & his new manager is pushing him to get there. Interview. telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Man City v Liverpool in 2019 was the highest quality Premier League game we’ve ever seen. Pep’s team won the PL, Klopp’s won the CL. It was about false 9’s, inverted full backs & fast attacking football. This season has been about corners & long throws telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Visited Conor Bradley's old school, and his GAA club in rural Northern Ireland, to explore his remarkable rise - and when he turned down a Liverpool underage tour to play a Gaelic football final for his school instead telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Interview with the King. telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

@SteKelly198586 😟

Was thinking more of 88/89 Champions signing big money striker we probably didn't need. So am expecting injuries to get much worse!