Cardiff Metropolis's Krystian Bielik has turned to a psychologist to cope with alleged dying threats after his controversial altercation with a Portsmouth fan.
Bielik is about to return from a n this weekend following the incident through the sport at Fratton Park final month.
The Polish defender admitted a cost of misconduct having been deemed to have grabbed the younger supporter by the shoulder.
Bielik stated this week s amid the controversy that additionally noticed him fined £10,000.
Boss Brian Barry-Murphy stated y, together with membership psychologist Dr Mikel Mellick, have been serving to the 28-year-old address with the fallout.
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"Yeah [we've spoken to him], simply to ensure he's okay," he stated.
"He's had full assist from all our departments to ensure him and his household felt reassured that we might do all the things to guard him and assist him in what was a hectic time."
The Bluebirds have an in-house assist staff led by Mellick, who can also be a principal lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan College.
"Now we have Mikel on the coaching floor practically all days," Barry-Murphy added.
"And James [Rowland], head of medical, they've mixed to be sure that the gamers get all of the assist they want on and off and away from the pitch with their prolonged households when essential. It's essential."
'Gamers not robots'
A Hampshire Police investigation into the flashpoint concluded no additional motion was wanted, with Bielik being issued a group decision order.
He additionally despatched a written apology to the fan earlier than he was charged by the Soccer Affiliation.
Barry-Murphy supplied a personality reference and witness assertion for Bielik's unbiased regulatory fee listening to.
And he’s eager for everybody to study from the incident.
"Kystian apologised for what he did and the FA did the method like they need," he stated.
"All our gamers are conscious of what we anticipate from them, and Krystian's no completely different.
"Our job, as a result of we work with these crowds, is to ensure [the players] have an consciousness of what's anticipated of them to stay skilled always.
"However they're not robots and so they're not excellent so there can be issues that occur that we don't predict or anticipate.
"As soon as it occurs we simply have to ensure we study from it be sure it doesn't occur once more."
