Blah Blah Blah Blah it's more ridiculous English paper talk. Its more than likely that Rafa and Alonso are on fine terms... Rafa just didnt want a player in the squad whose mind wasn't 100% focused on the job. To be fair, if his mind isn't 100% on the job then he shouldn't be in the squad.

For most players family comes first, if it was anyone else nearly the same thing would be happening. I personally don't think anyone has done anything drastically wrong in this, it appears that Xabi wanted to come out if the nipper came in time, fair enough, Rafa just thought it was too much of a risk in his preparations, again, fair enough. The media are just making something out of nothing again IMO