DO you think the Barcelona sun is beginning to do peculiar things to Emmanuel Petit's mind, perhaps even making him a touch barking mad? Speaking about French teammate Youri Djorkaeff (who had to withdraw from France's game away to Turkey last week because of threats against his life - he supports organisations publicising the genocide of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire) he said, "I was thinking about Youri and I said to myself, `I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice.

They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time'."