Quick Odds and Ends Ahead of the Weekend

•Everyone and his brother are proclaiming mad love for Gila. A memo must have gone out, or something.

•The FIGC are getting serious: Angelo Pagotto was just slapped with an eight-year ban after his second positive test for cocaine. Wow. If this was in the US, he'd have taken a very high-profile, very short trip to rehab and found Jesus by now, but since he's 34 already I guess that sort of penance wouldn't do much to help the career.

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