If the past couple years have been the Premier League’s Golden Age, thanks to the league’s development of top-to-bottom quality and a powerful Big Six, making it the one domestic league all soccer fans practically must follow, then this season might just be this Golden Age’s Golden Year. All season we’ve watched with rapt attention the blistering title race between Manchester City and Liverpool, legitimately two of the best Premier League clubs of all time. And after a few weeks of fortuitous results, solidified by this weekend’s round of fixtures, it’s now clear that the race for the Champions League places is possibly even more scorching than the title chase. Since the EPL’s Big Six really came into being as a solid block of consistently great teams (and Manchester United) that each expected to qualify for the Champions League every year—the marker for this being the summer of 2016, when Pep Guardiola, Antonio Conte, José Mourinho, and Jürgen Klopp all embarked on their first full campaigns at their respective EPL clubs—we’ve not seen the combination of title and top-four races that were as competitive as we’re seeing now. Only one point separates Man City and Liverpool atop the table, and…