Stress IS an issue for a sports psychologist. Stress can be detrimental to performance, and a sports psychologist could be used in order to improve performance by helping the player in learning to deal with stress and anxiety that debilitates perfromance. Obviously you know better so maybe i should have studied in your university instead.

Educational sports psychologists address stressors to the athlete such as performance worries, self-doubt, [utraumatic experiences outside of sport[/u, injury etc, etc. That would include stress and anxiety experienced due to those stressors which educational sports psychologists would look to rectify. However, if the eduacational sports psychologist believed the condition was due to severe emotional disorders ( such as suicidal tendancies, eating disorders, substance abuse etc ) they would refer the athlete to a clinical sports psychologist. I have taken this information from my course book( Foundations of sport and exercise psychology, by Weinberg and Gould, 2007) so I will believe their years of study research knowledge etc rather than your misguided comment. Of course if you'd like to point me in the direction where you obtain your information I will happily read it and pass it on to Weinberg and Gould so they can update their information and credit you with the discovery.

I can read.

Different folks different strokes ,things affect different people different ways .This topic should be locked .Stress affects people of all ages and from all different types of back ground .I had a relation who was suffering from stress no one knew .Sadly he is no longer with us .Leave Martin Gleeson alone to sort his own troubles out . I imagine he will pay us back as a club next season
Hull Fc are doing the right thing by standing by him

Can we not get into what happened at Wigan, this thread is about the here and now.

or commit suicide if neither of those are an option?

We seem to be getting further and further away from the subject now so I think maybe it's time to leave this here. The majority of posts are in support of Martin and the club and there isn't much more we can say about it at this time.

Lets hope he gets well and we see him back soon doing what he does best on the pitch.

Thanks.