Former Sunderland footballer Jermain Defoe is to be honoured for his friendship with young Bradley Lowery. The six-year-old avid Sunderland fan, from Blackhall Colliery in County Durham ...

Defoe pledged to keep ... Defoe has visited terminally-ill Bradley Lowery after his family revealed the six-year-old is having difficulty breathing. Former Sunderland star Defoe has struck up ...

Modern fans associate Jermain Defoe with Bradley Lowery, the young Sunderland fan who passed away after a battle against neuroblastoma. Defoe developed a remarkable connection with Lowery during ...

Altidore joined Sunderland on July 5 ... and his relationship with cancer-stricken youngster Bradley Lowery, which captured Defoe's heart and the hearts of the country. Ten years on, supporters ...

Yet Defoe has, through the most desperate of circumstances, gained more perspective than most. In 2017, Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old Sunderland fan he had befriended, died aged six after a ...

It’s not set to open until this summer - but the new River Wear crossing has already proved a big talking point in Sunderland ... names to honouring Bradley Lowery and monikers inspired by ...

He was the little boy who captured the nation's hearts. Following a long battle with cancer, Bradley Lowery, who was a huge Sunderland FC supporter - tragically passed away in 2017 at just six ...

Jermain Defoe is a Bournemouth striker who spent two-and-a-half years at Sunderland ... time on Wearside due to his friendship with Bradley Lowery.

GEMMA recently opened up on how Bradley, who passed away in July 2017 from a rare form of cancer, became a Light Blues fan thanks to his dad and grandad.