Match report: Milan 3 - Juventus 0

• Goals scored: Antonini 14', Ronaldinho 29', 67'
• What happened: Antonini scored the first goal of his AC Milan career. Ronaldinho scored two goals. The Juventus fans set off numerous explosions and sang derogatory songs and had to be warned over the public address system that play would be halted if they did not stop.
• Aggregate score of the two Milan-Juventus matches this season: 6-0 (Milan)
• Reasons why fans of both teams were unhappy: Juventus finished in seventh place and had a truly terrible season (for them). Milan did about as well as can be expected and finished in third. Milan fans are upset that the team has not spent more money to bring in top quality players in recent years and also that first year coach Leonardo (pictured above congratulating Antonini on his goal and pictured below being bid farewell by his team) is being forced out by Silvio Berlusconi. The fans repeatedly sang songs in honor of Leonardo until he acknowledged them with a wave.

Below: Milan fans with an enormous set of banners. The internet translates the bottom one as "President failed AWOL".

• Milan personnel who officially said goodbye at today's match: Leonardo and Favalli
• Milan personnel who may have played their last match for the team today: Dida, Inzaghi, Ronaldinho, and about a dozen others
• What this match teaches us: Milan's Serie A 2009-2010 season is over. This means that my daughter will soon be home from her (almost) year in Brazil.

Below are highlights:

Below you can watch the Milan players and staff force Leonardo to come out on the pitch for one last goodbye:

Leonardo Style

"What I know is what I read. I'm sorry for everything, but I must also say that I don't know anything anymore. I can say that Im sorry because it also becomes difficult to understand, therefore I cannot have an opinion on a specific thing. I can't understanding everything. I'm sorry, this year, but also in this case I only think about what I'm doing today and I don't want to lose the concentration."

--From the AC Milan website

Above: Leonardo and some of his friends

Match report: Bari 0 - Milan 2

I don't really have time for a full match report, but I will mention the following highlights-- Borriello's goal, his hug for coach Leonardo after scoring, Abbiati's penalty save, and the always excellent black road uniforms.

Match report: Milan 4 - Siena 0

Above: Borriello scores

• Goals scored: Ronaldinho (penalty) 12', Borriello 28', Ronaldinho 72', Ronaldinho 89'
• What happened: Milan are in second place in Serie A; Siena are in last. Siena lost their goalkeeper to a red card in the first ten minutes. I spent most of the game worrying that Milan players would get hurt.
• Milan players who scored a hat trick today: Ronaldinho
• Milan players whose goals are always spectacular-looking: Borriello-- today he took a pass from Pirlo and volleyed it in even though he was turned away from goal.
• Milan players who appeared to be possibly injured today: Nesta, Pirlo, Gattuso, Flamini and Antonini
• Milan players who were taken off either because they actually were injured or as a precaution: Nesta and Flamini
• Order of excellence of Milan's regular starting defenders this year: Thiago Silva, Nesta, Antonini, Abate
• How David Beckham has done so far: Nothing special
• Most interesting rumor reported by the announcer: Last week the Milan players were watching Inter play Siena on television. Inter was losing late but came back to win in injury time. When the game was over, one of the Milan players was so angry that they destroyed the television set.
• Who Milan play next: Inter
• What this match teaches us: Next Sunday's match against Inter is very, very important.

Above: Milan coach Leonardo stands on the sidelines

Below: David Beckham looks at the ball

Highlights are below:

Picture of the day

AC Milan manager Leonardo in his car

The disaster continues

Champions League Group Stage:

Milan 0 - Zurich 1

This game was not shown on television in the United States, so it is not possible to put up a full match report. Given the result, that is probably a good thing. Anybody who has gone to Brazil for the 2009-2010 season should consider themselves lucky that they do not have to watch what is happening to Milan right now.

Below: Leonardo

Below: Pato

Match report: Milan 0 - Bari 0

• Goals scored: None.
• Milan's offense: Inept, unimaginative, uninspired, feeble, tired, crabby, frustrated, old.
• Milan's defense: Don't worry if your defenders are beaten again and again-- just let Marco Storari make yet another unbelievable save.
• Number of unbelievable saves by Marco Storari: 4.
• Number of players who are well-loved by manager Leonardo and get to play all the time despite visual evidence that they are walking disasters: 2- Oddo and Abate.
• Number of world-famous players whose talents appear to have completely disappeared: 1- Ronaldinho.
• Number of people whose jobs are in serious jeopardy: 1- Leonardo (see photo below).

• Number of teams who deserved to win today: 1- Bari.
• What this match teaches us: Milan is currently doomed.

Match Report: Fiorentina 0 - Milan 2

In the final game of the season, Milan beat Fiorentina 2-0 (goals by Kaka and Pato).  It was Paolo Maldini's final game (number 902, to be exact).  (See picture below).  Now the way is clear for manager Carlo Ancelotti to leave - probably to go to Chelsea - to probably be replaced by Leonardo.  (See picture above - Ancelotti is on the left; Leonardo, on the right.)  If this is true, we here at Ape Canyon News Service wish Carlo all the best, even if we don't like Chelsea.  He has done a wonderful job for Milan over the years.