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Dad Carl, mum Gemma, eldest son Kieran and three-year-old daughter Gracie see Sunderland as not just a football club but “a way of life”.

She knows this better than most. As the mum of Bradley Lowery, the six-year-old who captured the imagination of the football world for his brave fight against a rare type of cancer, returning to Wembley is bittersweet.

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Bradley would have been 14 last week and it says much about Sunderland supporters that every time the club has an important game – and they don’t come much bigger than Saturday’s Championship play-off final against Sheffield United – the foundation’s inbox overflows with messages of goodwill and support.

“I always feel he’s close to me when Sunderland have these big games,” she says.

“But on games that are so important, such as last week and this week coming up to Wembley, he’s right at the forefront of my mind. But it’s not just my mind, I think it’s all of the supporters who think about him.

“I know for a simple fact that he would be with us this weekend, celebrating down Wembley Way.”

Among the countless good causes that have been supported are autism dogs for children, funding treatment, specialist equipment and extensions and a new holiday home in Scarborough for families of terminally ill or sick children to “make memories”.

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That is why she is so proud that Sunderland provide an executive box every year which families of ill children can use to create the sort of special times she had with Bradley.

“I know the stress I went through trying to work out what the best treatment was for him and how I’d get him there so the whole point of doing the charity is to take that pain away from the parents so they can focus on the child and the stress gets away from them.

At Wembley this weekend, she won’t be alone in taking time to think of a loved one who can’t be there. That Bradley’s name continues to do so much good, rightly, is a source of immense pride.

“It can be quite overwhelming and it can be very sad – there’s no getting away from that – but the positives outweigh the negatives.”

For more information about the Bradley Lowery Foundation and the work it does, visit bradleyloweryfoundation.com/. To make a donation go here: www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/thebradleyloweryfoundation/blf

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