Jose Mourinho named Premier League Manager of the Year

It continues to rain silverware at Stamford Bridge.

Jose Mourinho was named Premier League Manager of the Year on Friday, adding another trophy to Chelsea's cabinet as they complete a season in which they won their first league title in five years and also claimed the Capital One Cup title.

Mourinho, who beat out fellow nominees Ronald Koeman, Garry Monk, Nigel Pearson, and Arsene Wenger, went the entire season without winning a single Manager of the Month award, which seems criminal given that Chelsea are on the verge of ending the campaign with only three Premier League losses.

"It is, as you like to say in England, the icing on the cake, but the cake is more important than the icing," Mourinho told Sky Sports, according to the Guardian. "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."

The accolade marks Mourinho's third Manager of the Year award after earning the honour in the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

But back to the cake.

"The problem in football is that you are eating one cake and you are still thinking about the next one," Mourinho continued. "This is permanent. So I enjoy this cake 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."

Oh, and it's worth noting that Chelsea's season finale versus Sunderland on Sunday won't involve a repeat of 2005-06, when Mourinho threw his medal into the crowd to celebrate his side's second successive title.