From goalpost to grave.

Who would ever dream that kicking a football thirty years ago would make one the target for a murderer? Cnut finds himself in exactly that position, along with a dozen or so of his old friends, their minds being controlled, and their bodies attacked, with a diabolical mixture of toxic chemicals, inflicting deliberate suffering before the coup de grace. The motive is clear: revenge, but revenge for what? The Sheriff has to dig deep into the past to find the answer, and discovers some bizarre happenings from that time, but which, if any of them, has been twisted by a disturbed mind into a motive for murder?