Mourinho named Premier League Manager of the Season
Football
By
Mirror
| May 22, 2015
Jose Mourinho has been named Premier League Manager of the Season.
The Chelsea boss took the Blues to the Premier League title and also won the League Cup, on his second season back at Stamford Bridge.
The Portuguese tactician took the award ahead of Southampton's Ronald Koeman, Swansea boss Garry Monk, Leicester's Nigel Pearson and Arsenal chief Arsene Wenger.
"It is, as you like to say in England, the icing on the cake, but the cake is more important than the icing," he told Sky Sports.
"The cake is the Premier League, the cake is the objective of the manager, of the technical staff, of the squad, of the club, of the millions of supporters, and I work for the cake, I don't work for this.
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"If, at the top of the cake, I am the manager of the season, obviously I am very happy with that."
Bizarrely, Mourinho didn't win a single Manager of the Month award during the 2014-15 campaign, despite his side's dominance in the Premier League.
The Blues have led the title race for 274 days this term - Tottenham Hotspur have led for the second longest period of time, at just six days.
Nonetheless, now the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan manager is already turning his attentions to next season.
"The problem in football is that you are eating one cake and you are still thinking about the next one. This is permanent," he continued.
"So I enjoy this cake very, very much, I have missed it for a while because the last one was in the 2005/06.
"But to go back to England and win it again is a fantastic feeling."
There was further reason for joy for the Blues as Eden Hazard was named Barclays Premier League Player of the Season.
Hazard - also named the PFA Players' Player of the Year Award last month and the Football Writers' Association award winner - has scored 14 goals in the Premier League this term and set up nine others in 37 appearances for Chelsea.