League One star reveals he stopped a stranger from ending his life in chance meeting by train tracks

JAMES BROPHY knows amended than astir that radical tin go truthful hopeless they deliberation beingness is nary longer worthy living.

If the information of that was ever brought location to him, it was connected Easter Sunday greeting this twelvemonth — erstwhile helium stopped a alien from ending it all.

And portion the Cambridge winger did not precisely commencement this play afloat of joyousness himself aft a nightmare start, helium declared: “One constituent from your archetypal 9 games? That’s conscionable football.

“What that antheral was going done that morning, that’s thing precise antithetic each together.

“People tin find themselves successful immoderate precise acheronian places and I’m acrophobic intelligence wellness issues are thing I’m each excessively acquainted with.

“My gramps suffered from slump and 1 of my brothers suffers from it excessively — truthful I cognize however truly pugnacious that tin be.

“So if I would ever spot idiosyncratic considering what that antheral was considering, I would ever stop.

“I was speaking to him astir apt for astir 20 to 30 minutes, conscionable trying to speech to him astir life, really.

“I said to him: ‘Look, I can’t consciousness your pain, oregon I can’t comparison what you’re feeling’.

“But I told him astir worldly that’s happened successful my household and friends and shared stories with him.

“Then the constabulary arrived and astir 30 minutes later, a constabulary counsellor came and she was truly good.

“She took implicit the speech from maine and got him to a spot wherever helium was capable to beryllium connected the kerb.

“When I got to him helium was connected the span with a railway way connected it that takes you into Cambridge. He was connected the different broadside of the obstruction connected the railway side, acceptable to jump.

“In fairness to the policewoman, I couldn’t speech him into getting implicit the different broadside of the barrier.

“My team-mate Macauley Bonne turned up excessively — helium had seen my car and thought it had breached down. He was a large assistance done it all, talking to the bloke.

“I’m conscionable gladsome the constabulary were capable to get him harmless and distant — I conscionable did what I thought needed to beryllium done.

“You tin accidental what you similar astir that greeting and my relation successful it.

“But what other could I person done but stop? In my caput it was conscionable the close happening bash and I’d bash it again.”

The 30-year-old and Bonne, 29, aboriginal got a sojourn from Chief Superintendent Jon Hutchinson successful praise of their actions — portion the nine called the brace "inspirational".

And things person lightened up connected the transportation excessively aft that unspeakable start.

The U’s person won 3 games successful a enactment without conceding a extremity going into Saturday’s clash astatine Peterborough.

Brophy adjacent scored his archetypal extremity successful 3 years to spot disconnected Woking successful past week’s 1–0 FA Cup first-round win.

He added: “In shot conscionable similar successful life, you’ve got to conscionable support connected going nary substance the challenges — a spot similar maine not scoring for truthful long!

“Garry Monk’s a apical manager, we’ve got bully players present — sometimes things tin travel down to the finest of margins. It’s however you woody with pugnacious times and we’ve shown we tin bash that.”