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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was left wondering what if after the Blues won the English FA Cup final with a 1-0 victory over Manchester United Saturday in overtime of the first final at the new Wembley Stadium. Didier Drogba‘s goal in the 116th minute decided the game and denied United a league and cup double. Drogba’s goal was his 33rd of the season. The Ivorian scored Chelsea’s two goals in the League Cup final victory over Arsenal and finished the Premier League season as its top scorer with 20 goals.

Jose Mourinho, the pugnacious Chelsea manager, was arrested four days before the Blues’ FA Cup final against Manchester United, on charges of obstructing police. The incident took place after Mourinho rushed home from Chelsea’s team awards banquet after his wife, Tami, called, saying an animal health official and two police officers went to their central London home to place their dog into quarantine, believing it had been taken out of Britain and then brought back without the necessary shots.

A day after the end of the English Premier League season, underachieving Manchester City fired Manager Stuart Pearce, while Wigan Athletic appointed assistant Chris Hutchings as its new manager after Paul Jewell resigned. Glenn Roeder resigned as Newcastle manager just over a week ago, and the Magpies hired Sam Allardyce, who resigned as Bolton Wanderers manager last week. He had also been linked to the position that just opened up at Manchester City.

[U.S. ABROAD] Jonathan Spector came off the bench in the 26th minute for injured George McCartney and helped West Ham United upset his old club, Manchester United, 1-0, at Old Trafford on Sunday. The Hammers’ win cap a late-season comeback to remain in the English Premier League. Fulham’s three Americans — Carlos Bocanegra, Brian McBride and ,B>Clint Dempsey — all went the entire 90 minutes in a 3-1 loss to Middlesbrough that dropped Fulham to 16th place. Loan players Oguchi Onyewu and DaMarcus Beasley may have played their last games in the EPL.

Four months after leaving Sheffield United, David Unsworth returned to haunt the Blades, scoring the winning goal that gave Wigan Athletic a 2-1 win at Bramall Lane Sunday and doomed Sheffield United to relegation when West Ham United upset champion Manchester United, 1-0, on the final day of the English Premier League season.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho used the backdrop of Wednesday’s meaningless 0-0 draw in the top-of-the-table clash between champion Manchester United and his second-place Blues to rip the Premier League for its 2006-07 scheduling.

Charlton became the second team from the Premier League to be relegated after losing, 2-0, at home to Tottenham on Monday. Bulgarian forward Dimitar Berbatov and Jermain Defoe scored for Spurs.

On Championship Sunday, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson spent the day watching his grandson play soccer and then watched horse racing on television when he returned home. “When that was finished and I had nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs,” the 65-year-old Scotsman said, “I watched the last 15 minutes at the Emirates Stadium, and I was in agony.” Chelsea’s 1-1 draw at Arsenal on Sunday clinched United’s first league title since 2003.

[MAKING A LIST] Manchester United won the English Premier League title on Sunday. It was the club’s 16th league title since the English League began in 1888-89. Only Liverpool (18 titles) has won more.