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AC Milan managed to secure a place in the Champions League after the 2-1 win over Siena during the weekend, but the celebrations were marred because of striker Mario Balotelli being racially abused by Fiorentina fans. Milan destroyed the hopes of Fiorentina returning to the Champions League after a long absence with this victory.

AC Milan attacking trio of Mario Balotelli, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Stephan El Shaarawy (Google Creative Commons)

AC Milan need to win this afternoon to ensure they wrap up third place in the Italian Serie A and qualify for next season's UEFA Champions League. Despite the club being rather lackluster around the mid-season mark, manager Massimiliano Allegri has pulled a miraculous turn around of the Milanese side.

AC Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri (Wikimedia Commons)

AC Milan coachMassimiliano Allegri has made it clear that he will be staying with the Rossoneri despite what some are calling a forgettable season.

This season saw an early exit in the Champions League tournament for AC Milan as they failed to move past the round of 16.

Italian International Mario Balotelli has found his form again since returning to Milan in January. The young striker spent several years in Manchester making headlines for both footballing and non-footballing reasons, and that seemingly changed until now.

Just this week, Balotelli showed up at the Pala K karting cetner on the outskirts of Milan with his brand new £200,000 white Ferrari.

Napoli conquered Bologna to secure second place, Fiorentina won the Tuscan Derby, Juve clinched victory in Bergamo and Udinese stunned Palermo in a 3-2 thriller in Serie A action tonight.

AC Milan beat relegated Pescara 4-0 to close in on a top-three finish and that all-important Champions League spot.

AC Milan striker Stephen El Shaarawy has expressed his desire to remain at the Rossoneri for the entirety of his career, despite interest from other clubs.

The young striker is under contract with Milan until 2018, but has been linked with moves away from the Serie A powerhouse. Already Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City have reported interest in acquiring the flashy striker.

Milan have released a statement on their official website debunking a salacious quote attributed to Mario Balotelli by news organizations far and wide. Spanish outlets AS and Marca started it all by publishing brief items that claimed the Milan striker said, "If Real Madrid comes back against Borussia Dortmund and make it to the final of the Champions League, I will let my girlfriend sleep with all the players.

Your favourite trainwreck and overly-ballsy Italian striker, Mario Balotelli has done it again and this time, he's really pushing it!

According to Italian portal, Calcionews24, Balotelli has made a crude offer to all Real Madrid players, should they succeed in overturning the 4-1 battering from Borussia Dortmund at next week's return leg.

Paris Saint Germain striker Ezequiel Lavezzi is said to be looking to move to either AC Milan or Inter Milan this off season.

There have been reports that both AC Milan and Inter Milan have sparked interest in Lavezzi as he could bolster the offense for both squads and that he has not ruled out the option of a move to the city of Milan.

The Milanistas may have worn their flashy Balotelli masks all over the Juventus Stadium yesterday, but the night belonged to Arturo Vidal and his tattoos!

Vidal scored from the spot, which means that Juventus only need four points from their remaining five games to defend their precious Serie A title.

By DAN KARELL

Just when it looked like he was turning a corner, immaturity has brought Mario Balotelli back to earth.

Already set to serve a one-match suspension due to yellow card accumulation, Serie A officials tacked on an additional two-match ban due to Balotelli's actions following the 2-2 draw between his AC Milan club and Fiorentina last Sunday.

AC Milan's Mario Balotelli, El Shaarawy and French striker M'Baye Niang were pictured trying to "sleep" on a luggage rack on their train from Verona after a 1-0 win over Chievo two weekends ago.

However, yesterday afternoon, the wacky Balotelli decided that climbing on train seats for an optimum sleeping experience wasn't enough.

Manager Massimiliano Allegri of AC Milan (Google Creative Commons)

AC Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri has praised the effort by their newest striker Mario Balotelli and has even compared him to Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

The 22-year-old netted the second of two goals for Milan against Palermo in their league match on March 17th and will look to add to his seven total league goals against Florentina this Sunday.

According to new reports in Italy's Vanity Fair magazine, your resident 'Bad Boy' and the anti-Lothario of Football Mario Balotelli has completely changed his outlook on life thanks to his new relationship.

Perhaps anticipating a less than entertaining match, Manchester City published an FA Cup final bingo board on their official website to help keep viewers alert as they play Wigan. The club enlisted the proprietor of Football Cliches to put the board together (which has become something of an Internet cliche itself) and the result is a cross-section of the familiar moments and phrases that will inevitably play out.

Two months after selling Mario Balotelli to Milan, Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has come to the realization that losing the 22-year-old striker has hurt his club. The combination of Balotelli and Mancini's frequent clashes and Milan's willingness to pay the €20+ million necessary to bring him to the club he supported as a child ended Mario's productive two and half years in England (both as a footballer and a headline generator) before he could completely fulfill the potential Mancini always knew he had.

Samir Nasri was named man of the match in Man City's 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday. It was only the third Premier League start of 2013 for a player who has been one of the many wobbly floats in City's parade of disappointment this season and after the match, manager Roberto Mancini expressed his frustration with him.

By Chris Wright

Yep. Some dozy pillock at the Pala K go-karting complex on the outskirts of Milan decided it'd be a good idea to let Mario Balotelli rag his brand-new, £200,000, gleaming white Ferrari 450 (apparently bought to ease the pain of splitting up with girlfriend Fanny Neguesha)around their tiny, twisty track.

By Chris Wright

Some Portuguese graffiti artist/designer/vegan Crunk night organiser by the name of Mr Dheo has created a specially customised pair of camouflage Nike boots for Mario Balotelli to go with his disgusting Bentley Continental.

These are they.

All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle...

The FA's YouTube channel says the kid nutmegged Beckham in this Zurich appearance during World Cup bid week a while back, but it's hard to tell if he actually did. Either way, this might have been the moment Beckham first started thinking about retirement.

Former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has said that he was not surprised to hear that his former club had sacked manager Roberto Mancini. The Italian had overseen at disappointing season at the Etihad Stadium at both domestic and European levels. During his three years at the club, he managed to win the Premier League and the FA Cup.

Perhaps driven mad by Milan's garish new gold kit, Sulley Muntari was sent off in just the 40th minute of their match against Roma for trying to physically restrain the referee from showing Mario Baotelli a yellow card.

As incredibly dumb as Muntari's actions were, the incident was something of a continuation of what he did last week in Milan's match against Torino.

Is Luis Suarez bad for Liverpool? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

The antics of Luis Suarez on a sunny Sunday afternoon at Anfield have generated much brouhaha in the footballing world. Commentators on the game – ranging from ex-players to newspapers to various fan forums have been forthcoming and fulsome in their opinions on Suarez biting Chelsea's defender Branislav Ivanovic.

Mario Balotelli has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2013. The list has previous included the likes of Lionel Messi and Didier Drogba, but 22-year-old Balotelli is the only footballer to be named this year and one of four athletes along with LeBron James, Olympic skierLindsey Vonn and tennis player Li Na.

Mario Balotelli has displayed an increase in production on the pitch and more maturity off it since his move from Man City to Milan at the end of January. This improvement is made clear by the latest story about him. You see, instead of letting his friends burn down the bathroom of his rented mansion by setting off fireworks inside it, he was simply caught smoking a cigarette inside the bathroom of a train car on the way to Milan's match against Fiorentina.

Mario Balotelli's love of camouflage led him to customize his Bentley in a war machine paint job. That car ended up getting urinated on by a Manchester United fan before Balotelli left Man City for Milan, but no one would dare to relieve themselves on Portuguese artist Mr. Dheo's custom Balotelli boots.

Since Mario Balotelli joined Milan in January, he has combined with Stephan El Shaarawy and Mbaye Niang to form a youthful trident that has helped the Rossoneri to third in the Serie A table. The trio have formed a quick understanding between them that apparently extends to their shared inclination to sleep on the luggage racks in train cars.