Simon Hughes: Chasing Salah – the biography

Schedule

Sat Oct 18 2025 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Victoria Gallery & Museum | Liverpool, EN

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About this Event

NB: The timing for this event is subject to change due to the football fixtures list

Simon Hughes is an award-winning journalist and author and covers Merseyside football for The Athletic.

He will be joining us to talk about his new book Chasing Salah, a definitive biography of Liverpool legend Mohammed Salah, the most famous Egyptian footballer in the history of the sport.

His book Red Machine won the Antonio Ghirelli Prize for Italian Soccer Foreign Book of the Year 2014 and his other titles include Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout, Men in White Suits and Ring of Fire.

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