“She was considering her future, shall we say. But we saved the girl. Sweet talk, you can say. In the end she tootled off back to wherever she had come from. I think she saw us and realized, ‘OK, at least it’s not that bad.'”
— Phil Brown, coach of the English Premier League’s 18th place team, Hull, after dissuading an apparently suicidal woman from jumping off the Humber Bridge. Brown had taken his team on a walk “looking for clarity” after a 6-1 loss to Liverpool. (Irish Times)