Phil Brown (talking to the Hull Daily Mail): "We walked across there on Wednesday.
"We saved a girl actually - considering her future, shall we say."
The Humber Bridge - one of the longest suspension bridges in the world - is a popular focal point for visitors but suicides have not been uncommon since it opened in 1981.
When asked how he managed to dissuade the woman from jumping, Brown spoke of "sweet talk" but then added that he did not really know if she was planning to end her life.
"You don't know do you, until someone jumps, whether they were actually going to do it," he said.
The woman, who claimed "she was 40-plus but looked a lot younger than that", then "tootled off back to wherever she came from".
Perhaps the young lady was a Hull fan and had watched Hull's last few games ...
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