Heartbroken Jermain Defoe breaks down at 'best friend' Bradley Lowery's funeral as the six year old'

Heartbroken Jermain Defoe breaks down at 'best friend' Bradley Lowery's funeral as the six-year-old's mother pays tribute to her 'superhero in the sky'. The mother of Bradley Lowery has paid an emotional tribute to her 'superhero in the sky' as at an emotional funeral attended by her son's hero Jermain Defoe. Crowds in football shirts lined the streets of Blackhall Colliery, his home village in County Durham, with hundreds of others around the country wearing their teams' colours to remember the six-year-old's love of the game. The youngster fought bravely against the childhood cancer neuroblastoma and his friendship with Sunderland striker Defoe touched the hearts of football fans around the world. Bradley's coffin was brought to the ceremony in a glass carriage, pulled by two white horses decked out in the colours of Bradley's beloved Sunderland football team. A line of Bradley's favourite superheroes - including Batman, Spiderman and Captain America - saluted as the little coffin was carried into St Joseph's church by family and friends. Ahead of the service, Elvis Presley's 'Can't Help Falling in Love', a Sunderland anthem, played out to the masses of people who had gathered outside to pay their respects. Bradley's mother Gemma Lowery read a poem which included the line: 'We will meet again - our superhero up in the sky'. Defoe wore one of his England shirts to the emotional service, with 'Bradley 6' emblazoned on the back. He wept as he left the church and got into a waiting car ahead of a private ceremony at a nearby crematorium. Sunderland players John O'Shea, Lee Cattermole, Vito Mannone and ex-manager David Moyes were also among those packed into St Joseph's Catholic Church. Bradley's family had suggested that those unable to make the public ceremony could wear the colours of their favourite team to work and school, and make a £1 donation to the Bradley Lowery Foundation. In response, hundreds took to social media using the hashtag #CancerHasNoColours, and shared pictures of themselves in their kits, representing clubs from across English football and beyond. Bradley died of neuroblastoma, a rare cancer, a week ago, after a long battle which captured the hearts' of football players and fans across the country. England star Defoe broke off his pre-season training in Spain and flew home for the funeral yesterday. Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/