Five-year-old Lowery suffers from a rare type of cancer called neuroblastoma. He was diagnosed with the disease in 2013 and went into remission after multiple courses of chemotherapy.

However, this July he suffered a relapse and his family have been trying to fundraise the £700,000 needed for Bradley to receive treatment abroad but unfortunately his conditioned has deteriorated to the stage where that is no longer possible.

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Bradley has been sent numerous Christmas cards and presents, to which he posted the following thank you video - and on Wednesday evening he was the mascot and guest of honour for Chelsea's visit to the Stadium of Light.

He got to meet all the players and warmed up with both teams and during the fifth minute of the game the stadium erupted with applause for the youngster.

During the warm-up he took, and scored, a penalty past Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, leading to an almighty cheer from the crowd and the scoreboard to be changed to read "Sunderland 1 (Lowery) Chelsea 0".

After that goal, a campaign has begun on Twitter to try and make sure that Lowery's penalty is named as the Premier League Goal of the Month.

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