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why hasn't this been discussed on the GF before? i did try to search....(ok, after the crash at least) Watching my nan last week i'm sure she would of gladly taken the option in the final hours. Just 12 hours earlier i would of thought we had weeks left. I don't want to see another person i love deal with that ever. (you may question my capacity to love ;) ) So, i agree with it even more strongly then i did before... Legalise or not?? and if it was to be, at what point of the persons life should it be available...

Sky Sports | Football | Premier League | News | Benitez hails Alonso Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has hailed the form of Xabi Alonso after the midfielder got the winner against Chelsea on Sunday, to fire the Reds to the top of the league. The Spaniard struck the only goal at Stamford Bridge to inflict a first defeat on the Blues in 86 games on home soil. But it could have all been different if he had been sold to Juventus in the summer to finance a bid for Gareth Barry from Aston Villa. But Juventus did not match Liverpool's valuation of the player and the Reds could not prise Barry away from Villa Park, which is now giving Alonso a new lease of life at Anfield, where Portsmouth next visit on Wednesday. Just football Benitez said: "What happened in the summer with Alonso is just football, and you always have to try to change things. "Maybe I will now tell half a dozen players that I may sell them, maybe they will all start to play as well as Xabi! "It doesn't matter whether I change my mind about something or the player changes his mind. What matters is that as a manager if I have a good player, a good professional, I will use that player for the benefit of the team. "He is our player and we will try to take the best from him." Showing quality Benitez added: "He is showing the quality we know he has. Always he is a good professional, a good player. "Just like Peter Crouch, who we sold to Portsmouth, people must not forget that these were players I wanted to sign, and did sign. They are good players. "We did not sell Xabi in the summer because the price was not good enough for such a talented player. "That is simple, this is a football market, and now he is showing character and we have a very positive situation with competition for every place in the side being very high. "Alonso and Barry are two different issues. Barry is still a very good player, a fantastic player. As is Alonso. "Now Alonso is playing well and the team are playing well, that applies to everyone from Steven Gerrard to Daniel Agger."