VIDEO : Tim Howard Hopes Liverpool Never Wins The EPL

(CNN)Old habits die hard. Old rivalries run deep. For Tim Howard, the former Manchester United and Everton goalkeeper, this season's Premier League title race has proven to be something of a Sophie's choice. Manchester City or Liverpool. Local rival or arch enemy. The team once described by Sir Alex Ferguson as a "noisy neighbor" or the club that Ferguson made it his life's goal to usurp. "My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f***ing perch," Ferguson once famously declared.