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TO Peru for the annual Guinea Pig Festival.

Andean people pose with a Guinea pigs, wearing Peruvian local dresses and hats.

    

They sure do love those guinea pigs.

After the show, the critters get a good fed.

And then…

  

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber have been spotted out and about a few times in Texas, and we’ve already reported that they were seen having breakfast, playing Laser Tag (… or tonsil hockey), and leaving a dance studio.

But now we’ve got video of what exactly went on inside that dance studio. Apparently Justin and Selena were practicing some of their moves… and then Justin decided to post them on Instagram. The videos have been deleted from Instagram already, but – of course – some super sneaky person swiped them and put them up on YouTube before they disappeared forever.

We aren’t 100% certain what Justin and Selena were practicing for, since they were dancing to John Legend’s “Ordinary People” – but these videos give me mixed feelings. On one hand, I want Selena to stay as far away from Justin as humanly possible. But on the other… well, don’t they just look so cute and happy together?

Photos via WENN, Videos via YouTube.

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber have been spotted out and about a few times in Texas, and we’ve already reported that they were seen having breakfast, playing Laser Tag (… or tonsil hockey), and leaving a dance studio.

But now we’ve got video of what exactly went on inside that dance studio. Apparently Justin and Selena were practicing some of their moves… and then Justin decided to post them on Instagram. The videos have been deleted from Instagram already, but – of course – some super sneaky person swiped them and put them up on YouTube before they disappeared forever.

We aren’t 100% certain what Justin and Selena were practicing for, since they were dancing to John Legend’s “Ordinary People” – but these videos give me mixed feelings. On one hand, I want Selena to stay as far away from Justin as humanly possible. But on the other… well, don’t they just look so cute and happy together?

Photos via WENN, Videos via YouTube.

14 classic photos I found from March 1928:

The Giant tri-motored all metal Ford Monoplane shown March 28, 1928, recently completed, which will be used by Commander Richard E. Byrd and his party on their South Pole explorations. The craft is the largest of several to be used by the party.

Queen Mary and the Duchess of York (later the Queen Mother) at a Civil Service art exhibition.

Our 1928 picture shows German actor Emil Jannings with the first Oscar during the Academy Award presented for his 1927 film “The Way of All Flesh.”

Chinese special constables in the Hong Kong police force.

The first aeroplane that ever made a sustained flight – a biplane built by the brothers Wright – which was shipped to this country from America and, due to a dispute between the Wright Brothers and the US Smithsonian Institute, was put on display at the Science Museum in London in 1928.

Rugby Union – Five Nations – Twickenham – England v Scotland
England Team Group (Back Row l-r) Joe Periton, Carl Aarvold, Kendrick Stark, Jerry Hanley, Doug Prentice, Godfrey Palmer, T. H. Vile (referee).
(front row l-r) William Taylor, James Richardson, E. Stanbury, Ronald Cove-Smith (captain), Sam Tucker, Thomas Brown, Robert Sparks. (sat l-r) Colin Laird, Arthur Young.

Aerial view of the broken St. Francis Dam, north-west of Los Angeles, Ca., March 14, 1928, which burst, flooding the canyon below and killing over 600 people.

Henri Lacoste sets up his serving machine

The Duchess of York inspects and presents a shamrock to the Irish Guards at Buckingham palace on St. Patrick’s Day.

Jessie Matthews, the versatile young actress who has made a name for herself in revues by Noel Coward.

American sprinters and Olympic champions Jackson Scholz, left, and Charles

Combat falls at Becher’s Brook

Soccer – Home International Championship – England v Scotland
Aerial view of Wembley Stadium as the two teams line up for the presentations before the match
Date: 31/03/1928

Australian pilot Bert Hinkler is greeted by his mother after arriving in Bundaberg in Australia.
Date: 31/03/1928

MARTIN Samuel has written a monocular article about Spurs in the Daily Mail. Tottenham haave just lost 4-0 to Chelsea. Spurs losing to Chelsea is no big shocker. Games between the clubs are akin to watching the best bits from classic TV sit-coms.

Spurs are managed by Tim Sherwood. He’s English. To Samuel that is crucial:

Having lost 4-0 to Chelsea, the young manager appeared emotional. He told his employers to wake up from their dreams of Champions League football, claimed his team lacked character and talked about individuals in the group that he could not trust. It is fair to assume he is feeling the pressure.

You might think Sherwood’s management skills and ability to handle the media in the face of abject defeat are lacking. But Samuel sees something else:

Yet that strain is not greatly created by Chelsea, or any opponent. The load on Sherwood comes from within. He has a short-term contract and Louis van Gaal as good as applying for his job at every press conference. His chairman, Daniel Levy, is known to favour the exotic and this creates a climate of expectation.

That would be Levy, who before hiring and sacking Andre Villas-Boas, whom Sherwood replaced, put his faith in that exotic creature Harry Redknapp? Coincidentally, Samuel was the ghost writer of Harry Redknapp’s autobiography.

Levy became chairman of Tottenham in February 2001. This is the list of full-time and caretaker manager’s he’s appointed since:

2001  Glenn Hoddle (England)
2003  David Pleat (England)
2004  Jacques Santini (France)
2004  Martin Jol (Holland)
2007  Clive Allen (England)
2007  Juande Ramos (Spain)
2008  Harry Redknapp (England)
2012  André Villas-Boas (Portugal)
2013  Tim Sherwood (England)

Not exactly the most exotic line-up of countries, is it? If you’re tuning in from Peru, it might  be. But a Mail writer from London shouldn’t be so easily impressed by places reachable on a ferry and, in Redknapp’s case, via the M3.

‘Until you get a foreign manager of this club, nobody is happy,’ Sherwood said last week. And he is right, of course.

Oh, I dunno. What about Alex Ferguson making a return at Spurs? Or the afresaid Hoddle?

The names of well-qualified rivals will be trotted out now: Joachim Low, Jurgen Klopp, Lucien Favre (the Swiss chap at Borussia Monchengladbach who is the latest flavour of the month, the candidate only the real aficionados know). Sherwood hears the refrain, constantly. Foreign is best, foreign is better, foreign knows more, foreign is shrewder, more savvy, more tactically adept. Yet that ignores one salient fact. Foreign got Tottenham into this mess.

Eh? Levy was born in Essex.

It wasn’t Sherwood who squandered large chunks of the Gareth Bale bounty in the summer. It wasn’t Sherwood who conceded six away to Manchester City and five at home to Liverpool.

But Sherwood was the manager when Spurs lost 5-1 to Man City at home. He was the manager when Spurs lost to Chelsea 4-0 away. He was there when Spurs lost to FC Dnipro. But Samuel is not listening. He’s blaming it all on AVB:

The manager of the time, Andre Villas-Boas, is Portuguese, the director of football and still in situ, Franco Baldini, is Italian.

And..? Your point is?

…when Sherwood took charge, the club was in the elite equivalent of crisis: seventh place with 27 points from 16 matches, at an average of 1.68. Tottenham have since taken 26 points from Sherwood’s 13 Premier League games at an average of two, and risen to fifth place.

So. All the wins are down to him; and all the defeats are down to them?

Last season, two points per game would have been enough to finish third. So Sherwood has improved Tottenham’s fortunes, just not by enough to chase down the top four.

In the 2012-13 season, when AVB was in charge, Spurs scores 72 points from 38 games. That’s 1.89 points a game. One season earlier, that would have been enough to secure third place.

In the 2011-2012 season, with Englisher Redknapp in charge, Spurs csored 69 points from 38 games. That’s an average of 1.82 point per game.

AVB improved Spurs. Right?

…Tottenham were unlucky at Stamford Bridge.

4-0. You can let in four unlucky goal. But to get nil you have to have failed to have scored.

That’s not unlucky. That’s a failure. That;s good tactics by Chelsea, whose manager is…foreign.

ARSENAL Balls: The Sun leads with an “exclusive” on “Arsenal misfit” Thomas Vermaelen.

DAVID MOYES has targeted Arsenal misfit Thomas Vermaelen to replace Manchester United hero Nemanja Vidic. The Belgian central defender is no longer a regular at the Emirates, but the Gunners would still demand a £12million fee from one of their rivals.

He is a close pal of Robin van Persie and the pair share the same agent in Kees Vos.

Why Arsenal would sell another captain to a rival side – and why the Belgian would want to play for an average United team from which Van Persie might well depart in the summer – is a mute point for the Sun’s Charlie Wyett. As is the news that his exclusive is that the player said back in 2012:

“I have no intention of leaving this club. I feel at home in ­London and I feel that I have become a real Gunner. Arsenal is my club. In my eyes, they belong to the absolute elite of European top clubs. When I was young, I dreamed of playing for Ajax and Arsenal. Both dreams have come true.”

In November 2013, he said:

“I keep reading stories that I want to leave. But that’s not the case.”

Although in February, the Express had other news, and the player had a different agent:

Vermaelen’s agent Alex Kroes told French paper Le 10 Sport: “Thomas has told Wenger that he wants to leave Arsenal this summer.”

A quick check tells us that the player is represented by Sports Entertainment Group, created by Alex Kroes and Kees Vos.

Anyhow, one month  earlier, the Express had told its readers:

Wenger wants to keep Vermaelen at the Emirates and will start talks over a new contract with his current deal set to expire at the end of next season.

To put the tin lid on the Sun’s exclusive, the site Sports Mole reported last month:

Manchester United are reportedly lining up a bid for Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen.

And let us not forget Wyett’s previous exclusive on the player:

Such are the facts…

Happy Belated Birthday to Jenna Fischer! The former ‘The Office‘ star celebrated a milestone birthday, her 40th, yesterday. Jenna tweeted the above baby bump pic with this message:

Thanks for all the sweet birthday messages. I think I found a good place to celebrate! pic.twitter.com/Gxezyayna9

It looks like Jenna celebrated in paradise! And she’s already going to make this a memorable year by welcoming her second child. Jenna looks fantastic, doesn’t she?

Photo Courtesy of Jenna Fischer