Bascombe heads to Telegraph.

[Zé Pequeno]

Chris has better contacts at LFC than him so I look forward to reading his stuff. Just like I did on the echo and NOTW. he has better contacts than anyone covering LFC in newspapers. Good luck to the lad and I wish him well. He's by far the best journalist out of all the papers.

[Anubis]

Pleased to see he's landed himself at a broadsheet.

[Section_31]

Fuck him, bowel headed sunday sun cunt!

 

Pissed myself, I presume you mean bowl headed? Bowel headed is genius.

[JohnnyH]

This thread is funny. People just can’t let shit go can they?

 

Get over it for jazus sake. He’s a good journo, just because he said some things about someone that you didn’t like doesn’t make him a cunt. He’s a decent journo.

 

When I see people still getting their knickers in a twist about Bascombe, or having to write “China buys Liverpool” every time a certain other reporter gets mentioned, I just shake my head at the bitterness and pointlessness of it. No one is infallible. Not even the Pope.

 

Well done Chris. Hope this frees you up to get back to the quality writing of your Echo days.

 

 

However, "Bowel headed cunt" is a great put down, even if done by accident.

[usernameunknown]

Chris has better contacts at LFC than him so I look forward to reading his stuff. Just like I did on the echo and NOTW. he has better contacts than anyone covering LFC in newspapers. Good luck to the lad and I wish him well. He's by far the best journalist out of all the papers.

 

He's an amazing human being.

[Whelan]

I like Rory, good on twitter and a good match day journalist.

[The Dude Abides]

What sums Smith up is when he said we'd try and sign Iniesta last year. It was hilarious.

 

He didn't say that.

 

And even if he did, no, that wouldn't sum him up. Smith was brilliant during all the shite with the owners...what was Bascombe doing?

Edited August 17, 2011 by The Dude Abides

[Duff Man]

Not arsed in the slightest

[Juan Galonso]

He didn't say that.

 

And even if he did, no, that wouldn't sum him up. Smith was brilliant during all the shite with the owners...what was Bascombe doing?

 

Yeah he only broke the Blackstone refinance story which without that there would have been no "Internet Terrorist" campaign when Kop Faithful led the way with it on the back of that story.

[King Emlyn]

Good luck to him.

[Trucker Paddy]

 

He didn't say that.

 

And even if he did, no, that wouldn't sum him up. Smith was brilliant during all the shite with the owners...what was Bascombe doing?

 

Blackstone story was Bascombe and when Rory and others were helping big up a conman Bascombe was actually researching him, have a read of Epic Swindle it says alot about his part.

anyway good luck to then both, wether people like it or Bascombe is well connected on Merseyside and it's for that reason he's got the job.

Rory seems like a decent lad, i've probably unfairly criticised him on here and twitter, but he really has Fuck all sources on merseyside, the Merelis wasn't travelling on the Asian tour as he was about to be sold is the latest in a long line of whoppers he's came our with in last year or so.

Good luck to them both

[Antynwa]

China Buys Liverpool

 

In big letters

 

On a the front page

 

of a broadsheet

 

china didn't even bid

 

massive lols

[Il Fenomeno]

It was either going to be the twat from Northern Ireland or this guy...

[redsoxs]

Lost my respect the day he moved to NOTW, then he became a cunt in way he wrote & treated Rafa, then started to write bollocks in the NOTW.

 

Once a twat always a twat.

[sh#t waffle]

China Buys Liverpool

 

In big letters

 

On a the front page

 

of a broadsheet

 

china didn't even bid

 

massive lols

 

Wasn't that The Times? And to be pedantic, wasn't it 'China set to buy Liverpool'?

[Randy Marsh]

It's unfair for people to tar a journalist with one poor story.

 

The 'China buys Liverpool' stuff was well off the mark in hindsight but what's to say that there wasn't some good solid sources behind the story when it was first broke? Ofcourse there was, the Times have great connections with Liverpool and there is no way they wouldn't have gone big without good reason. Things change though.

 

If people want to hang a journalist on one or two poor stories, then I seem to remember Bascombe apparently (I didn't read the Sunday S*n) telling his readers that we need to 'cut Hicks and Gillett some slack' or something along them lines. See, no one is perfect.

[Hand Shandy]

It's unfair for people to tar a journalist with one poor story.

 

The 'China buys Liverpool' stuff was well off the mark in hindsight but what's to say that there wasn't some good solid sources behind the story when it was first broke? Ofcourse there was, the Times have great connections with Liverpool and there is no way they wouldn't have gone big without good reason. Things change though.

 

If people want to hang a journalist on one or two poor stories, then I seem to remember Bascombe apparently (I didn't read the Sunday S*n) telling his readers that we need to 'cut Hicks and Gillett some slack' or something along them lines. See, no one is perfect.

 

Nail, meet head.

[Randy Marsh]

And Smith has apparently been lined up to replace one of the outgoing Midlands correspondents

 

Telegraph rings changes again in move for Bascombe

 

 

Chris Bascombe, one of the sports desk casualties of the sudden closure of the News of the World, is in line to become Merseyside football reporter for the Daily Telegraph, with incumbent Rory Smith earmarked for a switch to the Midlands.

 

Self-confessed Liverpool fan Bascombe joined the NotW four years ago from the Liverpool Echo, where he had been named north-west sportswriter of the year for five successive years. He also ghost-wrote Jamie Carragher’s autobiography.

 

But with the post-Hillsborough disaster, Liverpool-wide boycott of The Sun still in force, Bascombe’s transfer from the Echo to what was the country’s biggest selling Sunday caused anger among some Anfield fans, who seemed to have a problem differentiating between the News of the World and its daily stablemate.

 

Bascombe, on 90-day gardening leave from Wapping, has consistently broken more stories on the Mersey beat than any other journalist – a feat which has not escaped the notice of the Telegraph as they seek to beef up their coverage in an area where they are already strong: football correspondent Henry Winter ghosted Kenny Dalglish’s autobiography and has remained close to the Liverpool hero.

 

The Telegraph is relocating Smith to the Midlands following the departure of Sandy Macaskill several weeks ago. Macaskill chose to leave after it was indicated to him that he would not be offered a new contract when his current agreement expired in the summer.

 

Smith is a former graduate trainee with Mirror Newspapers, who will now be responsible for four Premier League clubs – Aston Villa, West Brom, Wolves and Stoke.

 

This follows previous reshuffles elsewhere in the Telegraph‘s football squad, as well as the departure of its golf and tennis correspondents.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/jobs/telegraph-rings-changes-again-in-move-for-bascombe/

[MrWhite]

Fucking Torygraph.

[Hand Shandy]

China Buys Liverpool

 

In big letters

 

On a the front page

 

of a broadsheet

 

china didn't even bid

 

massive lols

 

Ant, I'm surprised you can see to type with your head wedged so firmly up Bascombe's arse...

[gkmacca]

Out of the fire and into the frying pan. Progress of sorts, but the Torygraph's sports section is in a shocking state these days after the editor booted out just about anyone who was any good.

[ritchie]

I liked Rory's writing style. But I guess if he wanted to cover the Midlands, then good luck to him. I've never read any articles by Bascombe as I don't read the Sunday papers, so will have to wait and see if he's any good.

 

Why would he want to cover the Midlands? Sounds like a demotion to me. Or 'the graveyard shift' as Stevie would say.

[lifetime fan]

needs to improve his writing style

 

He needs to up his game big time.

 

He should get on with that xenophobic twat Winter brilliantly though.

[Kevin D]

*Rubs hands in anticipation for Durango's arrival*

[Liverpool lad]

And I was right