Chris Bascombe

@AnthonyTeasdale Mentioned in piece, Anthony 👍 Hopefully not long before someone makes a breakthrough into the international side.

@_ChrisBascombe Ormy –the top club in the Liverpool League – won the National Cup in September at Lord's. At least a thousand turned up. Most of the fans had scouse accents, so there's obviously demand.

The ongoing mission to get a Scouser in the England Test cricket team for the first time since 1948.  telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/0…

🤝 Marine Football Club is proud to announce that Jamie Carragher, @Carra23, will be supporting the club in an advisory capacity. Read more at marinefc.com #WeAreMarine

@WillieMiller60 A good point echoed by a Huyton-based, ex Lancashire player in the piece, Willie!

@_ChrisBascombe I'm not big into cricket but my brother is and he says a large proportion of England test cricketers are public school educated. We're not really big on public schools in Liverpool are we.

I’m currently writing Telegraph Sport’s Briefing on Wed, Thurs & Fri, picking out favourite articles & inserting as many lame* gags possible. Be great if another 136k sign ups reflected my oh-so-accurate 'X' following. It’s FREE. (*hopefully not too lame) telegraph.co.uk/customer/secur…

It was a transfer that shook the footballing world: England captain #KevinKeegan leaves European Champions Liverpool FC for Hamburg SV. It was 1977. And the move set a then record transfer fee. However, Keegan and #LiverpoolFC continued to be successful. Kevin became a club icon for a second time, helping HSV win the 1978–79 Bundesliga title, and reached the 1980 European Cup final. He also won the Ballon d'Or twice in 1978 and 1979. Still the only English player to do so. Fast forward to almost 50 years later, and "Mighty Mouse" is now the subject of a special exhibition celebrating the links between Liverpool City Region and Hamburg. Entitled Harbour Cities: Global Stages, the free exhibition can be viewed in Hamburg City Hall until May 25th. It covers a number of themes to showcase the similarities of the two historic maritime giants, and how their ports influenced their peoples, traditions, academia and culture from music to sport. It also features a special section on #TheBeatles with rare photographs and letters, written by the original five members whilst in Hamburg from 1960-1962, exploring the massive impact the German city had on the fledging band. Created to celebrate the City Region’s role as the official partner of Hamburg’s annual port festival – Hafengeburtstag - it is hoped the exhibition will also go on display in Liverpool in the summer. The exhibition opened as a Liverpool City Region business and culture delegation heads to Hamburg to strengthen economic ties with the Hanseatic city. Find out more at: liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/news/from-me-t…

✍🏻 Liverpool’s starting XI cost £430.2m; the 10 outfield players had all won league titles in their career. ⚽️ But they conceded the first goal for the 21st time and lost their 18th game of the season. ✍🏻 They are soft touches. It can’t continue telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Despite their high-profile sales, Crystal Palace are two games from a European trophy. Makes you wonder why their manager is so keen to leave. telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Three Old Trafford winners in four seasons... one of LFC’s most underrated players discusses one of LFC’s most underrated seasons. telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

“I was on a rowing boat in India getting a tour from a 70-year-old local bloke & he said he loved the goal v Utd. I asked him, ‘Which one?’” 😂 telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

A sensational game in Paris: it's been played like the last few minutes of a World Cup final from the start. It's being dominated by the attackers in a way that makes it feel like it belongs to another era (a good era)

@Aplodge 😂😂😂

@_ChrisBascombe You must only just remember! First football memory?

For those of a certain age, this is what it was like watching Brazil v Italy in the 1982 World Cup.

Channel 4 News speaks to actor Mark Gatiss who is starring in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a German satire on the rise of Hitler. We asked him about why this play feels so timely.

'The BlueCo era has been an unmitigated failure; a vivid example of image over substance' @Carra23 says Liam Rosenior’s downfall is a symptom of terrible mismanagement by Chelsea executives who act like they are they smartest people in the room 👇 telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

It’s a sensitive topic for obvious reasons, but after a spate of recent incidents the question must be asked: is enough being done by football, & elite sport generally, to caution its stars about risks of driving superfast, luxury, high-performance cars? telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Column on the title decider at the Etihad! If Man City win I don’t see how Arsenal recover mentally. Arsenal win the title is theirs. Draw & Arsenal will crawl over the line! telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

This week’s Champions League was a stark reminder of how crap the overall quality of this season’s Premier League has been. telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

🚨 When @Carra23 met David Moyes: 🔺 Taking Everton to Europe would be one of his greatest achievements 📱 Baines and Coleman convinced him to come back 🤬 'Players were getting dog’s abuse – now they walk the streets happy' 🗣️ ‘I want to bring through more Scouse boys’ Read the full interview: telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…