Jose Mourinho could not have done a better job of keeping the Owls in the Championship, according to Brian Laws.

Laws has been forced to deal with more hardship than most managers in English football this season and is now looking forward to a well-earned break in the sun after watching his side overcome early jitters to secure a must-win 4-1 success over Norwich on the final day.

Laws, visibly relieved after his side eventually came good in front of a sell-out 36,208 Hillsborough crowd, said: "Under the circumstances, and I'm not patting myself on the back, but if Mourinho was here I don't think he could have done any better.

"That's the truth. We've had everything thrown at us and yet everybody has stayed calm and very focused. We could have thrown the towel in weeks ago but we didn't.

"That shows the camp is united and certainly the glue to it all is certainly the support we have had.

"The fans have been magnificent and would have been forgiven for turning on us all, the players, manager, because the results haven't matched their drive."