Ed Couzens-Lake

Do not be fooled home-based fans of the ‘Big 6’ – the ESL gives not a stuff about you April 19, 2021 - At least the advent of the much vaunted (and derided) European Super League has done one good thing. It has brought the wider football community (and that’s a word and concept the organisers of said behemoth would happily see wiped from the face of the planet) together in mass condemnation… ...
From the Archives: Our Ed advising that, in hindsight, hindsight is best avoided March 25, 2021 - International breaks are a nightmare for editors of footballing websites that, as a general rule, don't cover international football. From, sometimes, three pieces of content per day to *Family Fortunes klaxon*. So, to the archives I head and who better to turn to for a piece that was written eight… ...
NOSTALGIA: Favourite City keeper? Woods, Krul, Gunny? Or the one known as The Cat? November 17, 2020 - The mere mention of the word 'Keelan' provokes a warm fuzzy feeling for City supporters of a certain age, and right now we all need as much warm fuzziness as we can get. So, with Ed's permission, here again is his homage to one of the greats. *** Here’s a… ...
It’s all in the mind. When ‘lucky to be here’ changes to ‘lucky to have me’… July 12, 2020 - I’ll start with a quote. ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’ That’s the original. It’s been revised, redone and rehashed over the years but, whatever variant of it you may hear or read, the above is the mother lode, so to speak, of that well used phrase, one… ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Lies.. damned lies… statistics… & million-pound footballers June 6, 2020 - Here's a beauty from our Ed from 2012, where he looks at football's (then) new-found love of stats; in particular the one pertaining to the buying selling of players. Worth noting is the different direction this club is now taking in that regard, and how Ed's summary of 'a club… ...
Match Abandoned (Air Raid): The tale of the last time Carrow Road fell quiet April 8, 2020 - A disappointing crowd of just 10,729 made their way to Portman Road for Norwich City’s Third Division (South) match against Ipswich Town on September 2nd, 1939, a typically rumbustious and end-to-end local derby that ended with honours even in a 1-1 draw. The Norwich scorer on the day, Billy Furness… ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Not heard of Vasper, Gallego, Dennington & Ronson? Read on… March 31, 2020 - Peter Vasper. It’s a great name isn’t it? It sounds like one belonging to a 1970s TV detective; a man who likes to operate not only outside the law but also, with his unfeasible perm, heavily flared trousers and penchant for the naffest of the naff music of the time… ...
ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES: The one where City were stitched up by some hungover Toffees March 13, 2020 - Now, you may have been expecting a preview of City vs. Saints, but given its postponement and the uncertainty over the remainder of the Premier League season (for obvious reasons), an online debate is currently raging around the fairest way to conclude this campaign. Obviously, we all know the only… ...
ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES: The one where City played against nine Saints in the Cup! March 11, 2020 - ‘One from the Archives’ is a new feature on MFW, designed specifically to titillate those with a love NCFC nostalgia, and is definitely not a cynical attempt to fill our pages on a day when they would have been free of fresh content (or would have contained content that would… ...
Football will eat itself. So, the sooner the big four, five or six clear off the better? January 29, 2020 - I don’t know who coined the phrase about someone being so infested with a sense of self-importance that, if they were made of chocolate, they’d eat themselves. But I’ve always liked it. And it certainly applies to football at the moment. Because the game has become a sporting Mr Creosote,… ...

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