One well-intentioned text message changed Vincent Pericard's life, inadvertently triggering a sequence of events that led to a series of self-destructive actions and thoughts.
In the space of four years, the footballer went from training with Zinedine Zidane and playing against Thierry Henry to sitting in his apartment looking at a bottle of pills, wondering if anyone would care if he ever woke up.
Football had eaten him up and spit him out. A dismal run of injuries married with self-doubt turned him from a man once billed as football's first potential billion-dollar player, with Edgar Davids as his mentor, to someone struggling in the lower leagues of English football with mounting debt and self-destructive tendencies.