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School football team reunited after 60 years

A school football team has been reunited after more than 60 years, after a black and white photograph recently resurfaced.

Ten out of 14 players from Broadway Junior School's 1964 squad were tracked down for the special reunion in Sunderland.

The men, who are all now aged between 70 and 71, recreated the picture before meeting their present-day successors

Chris Lindstedt, who works at the school and helped to arrange the get-together along with ex-pupil Alan Hardy, said it was a "special and emotional day".

He spent six weeks tracking down former teammates on social media, some who had moved away, which he described as a "labour of love".