By winning the one trophy Mourinho failed to deliver in his Chelsea tenure, his old club could finally step out of his shadow.
It may have been, as his adviser put it this morning, the worst kept secret in Welsh politics that Peter Hain was planning to step down from the Shadow Cabinet before the next reshuffle - but to do what?
In fact, El Bulli's end seems to have opened up space for other farmers, food producers and chefs to step out of Adria's shadow and show off their culinary diversity.
Many Yemenis had doubted whether he would be able to step out of Mr Saleh's shadow.
And Maccarinelli is ready to take up the challenge and step out of Calzaghe's ominous shadow when he fights Afolabi on the undercard of Amir Khan's clash with Marco Antonio Barrera in Manchester.
John Lennon and George Harrison quickly became deeply disillusioned with life in the Beatles, while even Paul McCartney, now strip-mining his own back catalogue in stadiums around the world, spent years attempting to step out of the band's shadow.
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Shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the review was a worrying step in the wrong direction, with confusing programmes of study.
Labour leader Ed Miliband took the unusual step of responding to the statement - rather than Mr Hunt's shadow responding - and accused Prime Minister David Cameron of leaving Mr Hunt to "carry the can" in an "insult to the House and to the British public".
There will be much talk about how the eurozone crisis can be solved, what the next step should be in the US where a debt ceiling still casts a dark shadow over optimism, and about how income inequality has become a problem for all - rather than merely an advantage for haves over have-nots.
For the Tories, its shadow deputy commons leader Shailesh Vara welcomed the move as an opportunity to secure a "genuine step change in representation".
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