And Mourinho is now determined to bring the Champions League trophy back to Milan next weekend.
United will also be presented with the Premier League trophy which they won back from rivals Manchester City.
Thordarson became Stoke City's first non-British manager in 1999, leading the Potters to the Football League Trophy in 2000.
United, who lifted the Premier League trophy last week, was up 5-2 with 10 minutes to go before West Brom's stirring comeback.
But Linfield had done enough and players and management celebrated heartily as they were presented with the league trophy after the final whistle.
Hamburg's hopes qualifying for Europe next season, therefore, effectively rest on winning the Europa League trophy at their own stadium on 12 May.
Stoke's last appearance at Wembley was in 2000, when they beat Bristol City 2-1 to win the Football League Trophy for the second time.
United beat Arsenal 3-1 in the second leg and 4-1 on aggregate as the Champions League trophy again eluded Wenger and the London club.
The Irish province beat them 25-21 in January and followed that up with a thumping 36-10 triumph in May on the night they collected the league trophy.
That seems unlikely should Chelsea lift the Champions League trophy but former Liverpool defender Avi Cohen says Grant is fully aware of the fickle nature of football.
Since Mr. Gill became chief executive, he and Mr. Ferguson built a team that won four Premier League titles, one FA Cup, and one Champions League trophy.
Last year he made a remarkable recovery from his cancer removal and helped Barcelona lift the European Champions League trophy after beating Manchester United in the final.
The Barclays Premier League trophy will be presented at United's final home game of the season against Swansea City, just after the final whistle, on Sunday 12 May.
The Football League trophy will then be paraded by members of the Welsh Guards before being presented to Malky Mackay by Cardiff council leader Heather Joyce on the stage.
Barcelona's efforts to become the first team to retain the Champions League trophy, meanwhile, ended in frustration in the face of a sensationally stoic defensive show from the Italians.
If the 53-year-old can guide the Blues to a first Champions League trophy with victory over Manchester United on Wednesday, Grant will surely find a permanent place in their hearts.
He learnt his trade at Macclesfield before leading Milton Keynes Dons to a Football League Trophy final victory in March 2008 and to the League Two title a month later.
But Mourinho missed out on European glory with the club, failing to lift the Champions League trophy, a feat he had previously achieved with Porto in 2004 and later with Internazionale in 2010.
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins said the players were unaware of the derogatory content of the articles which had been given to them by the fans after the Football League Trophy win over Carlisle.
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He also led Chelsea to second place in the Premier League, runners-up in the Carling Cup and was one penalty kick away from bringing the Champions League trophy to Stamford Bridge in 2008.
There have been seven managers at Chelsea in the six years since Mourinho left, having won every major domestic honor at Stamford Bridge but repeatedly falling short of giving Abramovich a Champions League trophy.
Alex Ferguson bid an emotional farewell on Sunday to Manchester United, the club he has led for over 26 years, before his team raised the English Premier League trophy for the 13th time during his tenure.
In the 21 seasons since he won his first Premier League trophy, title in 1992-93, English soccer's Player of the league's top goal scorer Year award went to a Manchester United player on just four eight occasions.
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Smith brought back the 31-year-old for the final two games of the season and Ferguson lifted the league trophy along with new captain David Weir at Tannadice on Sunday, but the manager would not be drawn on the player's future.
Once more he is a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goalie, and a Hart Trophy MVP candidate, as well.
Though he has coached in eight countries and won 13 trophies, including titles in Sweden and Denmark, he has never led a team to a major European trophy or league championship.
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Woking, once FA Cup giant-killers, sometimes flirting with promotion to the Football League and treble FA Trophy winners in the 1990s, have since been relegated to Blue Square South where they are challenging for promotion and this weekend could propel themselves back into football's spotlight.
Nor is it the junior soccer league where everyone gets a trophy just for showing up.
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Sturridge was Chelsea's top scorer in the FA Cup last season as they added the trophy to the league title.
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