Who wouldn’t want to see the best clubs in soccer playing a couple more games per year? Unfortunately for me, this naïve thought experiment I had conducted was nothing more than an idyllic charade insulating me from the tragedy of an impending reality.

The performance United turned in was one of their best of the season, and it came against a team in arguably the best form in all of European soccer. As a United supporter, I should be thrilled. So why am I not?

Eight total games took place over the course of eight days. The Champions League knockout stage is in full effect and I could not be more excited. Then the games happened and I am less excited as the vast majority of them were mostly uninteresting.

I wrote an article two to three weeks ago about the five teams I saw as legitimate title contenders in the English Premier League. Those teams were Manchester United, Tottenham, Liverpool, Leicester City, and Manchester City. Since writing that article, that whole list has lost all of its meaning and I should just delete it to save myself any further embarrassment.

In my opinion, there are five legitimate candidates to win the League this year, and coincidentally they are the top five teams in the league. Those teams are currently Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Leicester City, and Tottenham in that order.