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Sunderland's FA cup victory was more than a soccer triumph. It represented a badly‐needed morale booster for local commerce and industry in a town which—like its second division football team—felt it was being treated like an underdog. Shipyard workers, like those on the right, exemplify a local saying: ‘If the football team does well, then the firms do well.’ Report and pictures by John Lawless.