Premier League: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Liverpool have advantage in title race

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Liverpool have the advantage in the Premier League title race due to their absence from the UEFA Champions League.

Liverpool's 3-2 win at Fulham on Wednesday evening put them four points behind leaders Chelsea in the table with 12 matches remaining.

The Blues - as well as second-placed Arsenal and third-placed Manchester City - all have two-legged Champions League last-16 ties coming up, whereas Liverpool only have the FA Cup as an additional distraction.

Mourinho feels this could be pivotal over the final weeks of the season, but believes there will be more twists and turns to come in the Premier League with every team fighting to win vital points.

"When I say we're not the top candidate everyone thinks 'here he is again, with what you like to call the mind games'.

"But it's just my feeling.

"The league is amazing - it is difficult for every one of us.

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Most tattooed Argentinian couple in the world - most inked lovebirds

Tickled ink: Argentinian lovebirds Gabriela and Victor Peralta have the Guinness World Record for being the most modified married couple with around 75 per cent of their bodies covered in tattoos

He has 90 per cent of his body covered in tattoos. She a mere 65 per cent.

And with some 50 piercings between them, it's no surprise Gabriela and Victor Peralta are a match made in heaven.

The Argentinian lovebirds are the world's most modified couple with a total of 77 bodily alterations that also include four microdermals, 11 body implants, five dental implants, four ear expanders, two ear bolts and one forked tongue.

 

'We love each other very much': Gabriela, 42, and Victor, 43, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been together for 13 years and say they are 'perfect' for each other

And they hold the official Guinness World Record for the most modified married couple to prove it.

Gabriela, 42, and Victor, 43, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, have been together for 13 years and say they are 'perfect' for each other. 

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Egypt dig unearths 3,600-year-old mummy

A sarcophagus with a mummy inside that dates back to 1600 B.C. has been unearthed in the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor.

Archaeologists say they unearthed a rare find during a dig in Egypt: a sarcophagus that's 3,600 years old -- with a mummy still inside.

 

Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported Thursday that a team working on a routine excavation at a tomb in Luxor uncovered the painted, human-shaped sarcophagus.

It dates back to 1600 B.C., when the Pharaonic 17th Dynasty reigned in Egypt, the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities said.

Men dig up the sarcophagus in Luxor. The sarcophagus belonged to a top government official, reports say.

The sarcophagus belonged to a top government official, whose mummy was enclosed inside, Al-Ahram said,

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The 70-year-old body builder - 'Age is nothing but a state of mind'

Let off steam: He started out 27 years ago when going to the gym seemed the perfect way to let off steam when his marriage began to fall apart

Is this the body of a 70-year-old? Sonny started bodybuilding when he was 44 years old

Sam 'Sonny' Bryant says he's as old as he feels. Feel him, though, and you'll never guess his age.

That's because the iron-pumping pensioner has pecks that men half his age would only dream of. His biceps are bulging and his legs are like logs of oak. And the only pills he takes are his vitamins.

At 70 years old, Sonny is a champion bodybuilder from Georgia ... and he has no plans of hanging up his singlet just yet.

'People ask me when I'm going to retire,' he says. 'I say "never". More people die retired than people do working. I love to work, I love to work out. I've been doing this for 27 years.'

Sonny works the graveyard shift at personal-care emporium Kimberly-Clark as a forklift driver and works out twice a day to maintain the body that has won him more titles and trophies than he can count.

He started out aged 44 when going to the gym seemed the perfect way to let off steam when his second marriage began to fall apart. 

He says he'd never lifted a weight before in his life but soon got the knack and entered his first competition just 11 months later in Columbus, Georgia. 

He arrived with the wrong outfit – a red, white and blue Speedo – and says he had no idea how to pose.

'The judge called out for a pose, and I had to see what everybody else was doing,' he told the Chronicle.

Against the odds, he came third in the novice competition and fourth in the master competition. Now he can deadlift 425lbs with out a grunt.

'I was just like a crack addict - I was hooked,' he told Augusta.Chronicle.com. 'I had two trophies, never having won anything before.

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Former Chelsea Striker 'Didier Drogba' helped Chelsea sign Hazard

 

Roma boss Rudi Garcia has revealed Chelsea used Didier Drogba to open the door that eventually led to Eden Hazard joining the Premier League side.

Hazard, 23, moved to Stamford Bridge from Lille in the summer of 2012 in an estimated 40 million euro deal.

The highly sought-after Belgium international had a host of clubs chasing his signature, but opted for Chelsea after former Blues forward Drogba contacted fellow Ivorian Gervinho, who was Hazard's teammate at Lille at the time, to help pave the way from northern France to west London.

"Didier Drogba is an important player for Ivory Coast, but also in all the clubs he has been at. It's true that [Chelsea owner] Roman Abramovich, via Didier Drogba, created that contact to sound out Eden Hazard a little bit," Garcia, who has Hazard's coach at Lille for four seasons, told RMC.

"They weren't the only club interested in him, but he's at Chelsea, a club with which he is currently doing great things. He's a great talent. He's very effective, which is what he's being asked to do. It's not a surprise."

Hazard is currently Chelsea's top scorer in the Premier League this season with 12 goals, three more than he scored in the competition for the whole of the last campaign.

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