The Special One has just completed back to back titles for Chelsea, and despite not winning a manager of the month award somehow scopped the big one.
A perplexed Mourinho commented: "It is a big honour, the consequence of Chelsea being champions, but it is a surprise as in the season I didn't win one manager of the month.
"It is a collective award, it's about manager and team achieving the target."
He added: "At the same time I don't forget the other people who also had very positive work and one of them could have been the winner.
"Mark Hughes did it with Blackburn by reaching the Uefa Cup, Alan Pardew and Paul Jewell did it at West Ham and Wigan by having a very stable season.
"Of course Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal wanted to be champions and they weren't."