Humber Bridge Board unaware of Phil Brown talking down suicide jumper
The Humber Bridge Board today said it was not aware Hull City manager Phil Brown had talked down a possible suicide jumper.
Brown claimed he met the woman when the team went for a walk on the bridge on Wednesday.
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He said she was "considering her future" but came down after some "sweet talk".
A spokesperson for the bridge board said: "We have not heard anything about this."
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Here is the full interview with Brown about the incident.
Brown: "Walked across there (the Humber Bridge) yesterday. We saved a girl actually. Considering her future, shall we say, but that's one for the headlines isn't it, I suppose?"
Reporter: "Genuinely?"
Brown: "Well, you never know do you until you see her jump, you don't know whether somebody is actually going to."
Reporter: "So, then she saw you guys and thought 'it can't be as bad as all that?'"
Brown: "Can't be as bad as that."
Reporter: "I've got to ask, it would be silly not to ask, did you seriously bump into a young lady up there then?"
Brown: "Yes, I did."
Reporter: "What, you just got talking to her and..."
Brown: "Aye, sweet talk."
Reporter: "How old was she?"
Brown: "She was claiming she was 40 plus, but she looked a lot younger than 40 plus."
Reporter: "How did you manage to dissuade her from jumping?"
Brown: "Nobody said she was going to jump."
Reporter: "But I mean, seriously?"
Brown: "You've got a story there haven't you?"
Reporter: "Well, you just said that you bumped into this woman."
Brown: "It's your job to write the headlines not mine."
Reporter: "Did she come and join you for the walk?"
Brown: "No, no, she tootled off to wherever she came from."
Reporter: "There's no reason to be up there unless you're a football team looking for inspiration?"
Brown: "Correct."
Reporter: "What was the thinking, just a warm down?"
Brown: "No, no, not a warm down, looking for clarity."
* Were you the woman on the bridge? Call the Mail's newsdesk on (01482) 315261.
Comments
by mookie, humber bridge looking down
Sunday, October 04 2009, 8:14PM
“I was there on the day in question, had to talk down 15 or 16 forlorn looking guys in black and amber track suits, oh and a rather orange looking fella with a funny stick thing poking out of his ear.”
by mike, spain
Saturday, October 03 2009, 2:18PM
“hull city are also UNAWARE that he is the manager”
by michael, bonelgesgory
Saturday, October 03 2009, 10:23AM
“So basically what you're saying is that it's perfectly legitimate journalistic licence to contrive an utterly false story to make some local twerp look good, and fill out some copy on an otherwise lacklustre news day.”
by Anhans Rexick, Hull
Saturday, October 03 2009, 8:15AM
“Michael; read the article again without your anti Brown glasses on.THE REPORTER WANTED THE STORY.”
by Meg Ative, Blundells Buildings
Saturday, October 03 2009, 8:13AM
“It was Kath Hetherington.”
by Jimmy Nixon, The Gay bouncer club
Friday, October 02 2009, 9:23PM
“I heard she was a season ticket holder and had supported Hull City for many years - said she could take no more after saturdays away defeat :-(”
by michael, bonelgesgory
Friday, October 02 2009, 6:29PM
“What an utterly pathetic story. Is there no limitation to this mans gifts? does he wear his underpants on the outside of his trousers, whilst sporting a red cape? This is a man who earns money by telling 11 not very bright indivduals to run up and down a field kicking a ball until one of them can punt the ball in to the netted area, that must be an almost unbearable challenge. Does he tire? is he fatigued? not a bit of it, his philanthropy knows no limitation. he can still find time to talk down suicides and make them feel on top of the world. What next reconciling the Arabs and the Israelis, or just a straight-forward no nonsense geordie solution to climate change. Is anyone familiar with the expression "The emperor's new clothes"?”
by Unidentified woman, The Humber Bridge
Friday, October 02 2009, 4:20PM
“I've had enough of this. I will tell you what really happened -after all I was there!!
I was on the Humber Bridge, because I learned of Phil Brown's 'Day out with the Lads'. Thought it strange he wasn't at the Weir Bar with Jimmy Bullard, but that's his choice. Anyway, when I saw this group of yobos wandering around, I walked over to the edge and started my catawailling. Phil comes over to talk with me, as was in the plan. Then he tried his 'Sweet Talk' - something like ... "What's a tasty little strumpet like you doing up 'ere?" "Me & the boys are looking for some fun baby!" I tried to grab Phil & CHUCK HIM OVER, but that damn orange liquid he has all over him was too slippery. He broke my grasp and I got scared by his Boot Boys, so I ran off.
Now that's the true story.”
by steve, thorngumbald
Friday, October 02 2009, 3:21PM
“he promised her to be captain as no one else will take it!! he also asked her to pick the team for saturday as he didnt have a clue!!”
by oh no, hull
Friday, October 02 2009, 3:16PM
“good job he dident offer them any free tickets to one of there games he mght have had mass suicide on his hands?”