But Huddersfield's defeat leaves them in danger of missing out on a top-four Super League finish.
Mowbray is no stranger to Scottish football after leading Hibernian to two top-four finishes in 2005 and 2006.
Liverpool are 13 points off the top of the table - and five points adrift of a top-four place.
Only a statement 5-2 victory over Tottenham the following week kept its top-four bid on track in the Premier League.
The Ospreys' win also gave Cardiff Blues a boost in their bid for a place in the top-four play-off places.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy hailed the turnaround that has led to the club securing a top-four place as "an amazing achievement".
At that point, London Irish were topping the table but they are now in sixth and outside the top-four play-off places.
Gronholm, who needs a top-four finish to have a chance of overtaking absent leader Sebastien Loeb, led overnight after winning the first two stages.
He says that a top-four accounting firm, who declined to be named, has already given the go-ahead on the new financing.
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Despite moving five points clear of Spurs, Arsenal's top-four hopes remain in the balance, having played two more matches than both London rivals.
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The sense of importance surrounding the match was heightened by the knowledge that a win for either side would boost their top-four aspirations.
Everton is currently pushing for a lucrative top-four spot in the Premier League and with it a chance to play in next season's Champions League.
Chelsea is sixth in the English Premier League and faces a fight to achieve the top-four finish it needs to qualify for next season's Champions League.
Liverpool's Luis Suarez damaged Chelsea's hopes of a top-four finish Sunday afternoon with an equalizer in the seventh minute of stoppage time to secure a 2-2 draw.
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However it was not as bad as the previous day when the top-four seeds including Wimbledon champion Lindsay Davenport and teenaged Russian star Anna Kournikova both perished.
But the reverberations made their way from Manchester to North London, where both of Chelsea's main rivals for a top-four finish had been hoping for a different result.
If Milner does leave Villa Park, Morley thinks the Villa fans should not panic into thinking they are losing ground to their rivals for a top-four place next season.
London Irish are currently fourth in the Premiership and need a win in their final match away to Worcester to make sure of a place in the top-four play-offs.
The last time Spurs managed a top-four finish was back in 1990, when they finished third under Terry Venables, so their nerves at White Hart Lane were perhaps understandable.
In the past 15 years, just three FA Cup finals have featured a matchup between top-four clubs, while recent finals featured unheralded teams such as Millwall, Southampton, Cardiff and Portsmouth.
But in successive seasons he guided a youthful side to top-four finishes in the Scottish Premier League, becoming the first manager to do so since Eddie Turnbull in the 1970s.
Roberto Mancini's team ensured Arsenal's focus will be a top-four finish, ending any remaining hopes of title contention with a victory that left the sixth-placed London side 21 points adrift of United.
Spurs lie three places and three points outside the Champions League reckoning, meaning only a victory will do if they are not to risk falling further behind in the race for a top-four spot.
Other goals should have followed in the second half as City dominated, but Mancini, who has promised a top-four finish to bring Champions League football next season, will have been satisfied with his team's display.
During their tenure, the joint-owners have endured a rough ride from supporters frustrated at the club's lack of success, culminating in last season's failure to secure a top-four finish and a place in the Champions League.
They even briefly moved into a top-four spot after beating Fulham in October but their results have dipped badly in recent months and they have slipped to 17th place, above the relegation on goal difference alone.
The Ospreys' focus has been more on the top of the table as they currently lie fifth on 33 points, one point off a top-four place that would win them a spot in the new end-of-season Magners League play-offs.
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