Mexes Apologizes for Punching Borriello

This past Saturday's match between Milan and Juventus at the San Siro had been billed as the decisive battle for the top spot on the Serie A table; however, the match ended in a 1-1 draw thanks to goals from Antonio Nocerino in the 14th minute for Milan and from Alessandro Matri in the 83rd minute for Juventus. In the end, the occurrence during the match that proved to be the news maker of the day was Philippe Mexes' off the ball punch of former Roma teammate Marco Borriello.

Although the match referee did not see the incident during the match, the television cameras picked it up and the hot headed French defender was given a three match ban.

Mexes is now attempting to make amends, having apologized to the referee, Paolo Tagliavento, who was officiating this week's friendly between Germany and France, and is now expressing the desire to apologize to Borriello.

Milan, who are one point ahead of Juventus on the table, head to Sicily on Saturday to play Palermo while Juventus host Chievo Verona on Saturday evening.

[VIDEO] Jose Mourinho Pinches/Gouges Barcelona Coach Villanova & Ray Hudson Goes Crazy for Messi

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Barcelona beat Real Madrid in Spain's Supercup on Wednesday, 3-2, with a 5-4 aggregate. Real Madrid Coach Jose Mourinho showed him self to be a bit of soar loser when he gouged the eye of Barcelona Assistant Coach Villanova following the dust-up that occurred after Marcelo picked up a red card for a tackle on Barcelona's newest player, Cesc Fabregas.





Here's bonus video from today's match, Messi's brace, gotta love Ray Hudson's reaction:

A New Low in Diving? Player Uses Opponent's Arm to Hit Himself

In a recent U20 match down in South America, a Chile's Bryan Carrasco grabbed the arm of a player for Ecuador and pulled that player's fist into his own face. Carrasco's trick work, drawing a foul on the Ecuadorian, but Ecuador won the match 1-0.

[VIDEO] Lazio's Zárate Punches Referee After Lazio Loss to Bologna?

It hasn't been a good week for Lazio, on Wednesday they lost to Roma in the Coppa Italia and today they lost 3-1 to Bologna and fell below Roma on the Serie A table. To make matters worse, it appears that Lazio's Mauro Zárate managed to make contact with a referee when throwing a punch during a post match dispute with Bologna players.

Bari's Francesco Caputo Punches Teammate in the Face

With another weekend of Serie A matches about to start, I suspect that while Bari's Francesco Caputo hopes to score another goal, his teammate Emmanuel Rivas hopes that Caputo won't punch him again.

This past Sunday, after scoring the equalizing goal in the 64th minute of Bari's match against Cesena, Caputo celebrated by punching Rivas in the face. It should be noted that Rivas got the assist on the goal.



It's not clear if Caputo intended on re-enacting the following goal celebration:



But if he did, it would have been good of him to warn his teammates in advance.

The match ended up in a 1-1 draw. This weekend, Bari plays at Sampdoria at 8:00 am central time on Sunday.