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Manchester City or Liverpool. Local rival or sworn enemy. The team has already been described by Sir Alex Ferguson as a "noisy neighbor" or by the club that Ferguson had given himself as an ultimate goal to usurp.
"My biggest challenge has been to bring Liverpool out of its good fortune," Ferguson said.
Howard is unequivocal. "I hope Liverpool will never win a title as long as I'm still breathing," he told CNN after his Colorado Rapids team was defeated by Atlanta United, expressing with a twinkle d & # 39; eye.
"We have two teams in the form in which they are both, and that will be over." If no one has a failure, City wins.
Indeed, two days from the end, City has a point over Liverpool and his home games against Leicester and Brighton are almost certain to decide the destination of the trophy. Liverpool must play in Newcastle and then at home for the Wolves on the last day of the season.
"Football is funny"
This year has been a strange dilemma for a man whose heart bleeds both Merseyside blue and Manchester red. Even a decade ago, it would have seemed an unlikely notion – an unusual nightmare, light years away from reality.
In 2009, Howard Everton finished fifth, while Manchester United propelled Liverpool to the title in a raging battle under the sign of the war of words between Ferguson and Reds manager Rafa Benitez.
Manchester City, on the other hand, was not found. Under the direction of Mark Hughes, City finished 10th. Brazilian star Robinho was the only true star of the money game, Abu Dhabi based City owners only taking control of the club on the last day of the transfer window of summer 2008.
It was a team with names as varied as Valeri Bojinov, Michael Ball and Felipe Caicedo – the beginnings of an unsuspected transformation.
Last weekend, United held a 1-1 draw against Chelsea. The red half of the city is now in danger of sinking into darkness.
However, at Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United's fortunes began to improve gradually – or, as they had already done – until the Norwegian was appointed to a permanent position.
Howard, who played alongside Solskjaer for four years before the two men leave the club at the end of the 2006/07 season, does not doubt the skills of his former colleague.
"So football is funny," said Howard. "The experts and the fans are funny.It is the ideal man for the post.Hope that they will spend money and that they will get his players in and that 's n & # 39; is not a problem.
"It's funny, no? Football: he comes in and wins every game for three months." He is the second coming of Jesus Christ and everyone loves him, then they demolish him and are ready for him. reverse. "
Howard describes the manic world of football management, with its ever-increasing short-termism – a company where results are paramount.
For the future, he is confident that Solskjaer will bring back his old club to the glory of the past.
"I think for all teams in this group of six or eight teams, the idea is to finish in the top four," he explained.
"And if you have the shape and the lightning in a bottle, and you're in a title race, then everything is to play in. But for now, I think the idea is that they're coming back to the Champions League, that's for sure. "
In January, Howard, 39, who played 121 games with the US men's national team, announced that he would retire at the end of the MLS 2019 season.
"There will be a lot of time for the feeling later," wrote Howard on Twitter. "Right now, I'm going to enjoy every minute, and as I've always done, compete hard and help run the Rapids for the sole purpose of winning."
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