This is Part 2 of a two-part series on North Korea’s participation in the 1966 World Cup. Part 1 can be found here.

In the summer of 1966, an unlikely bond formed between an unheralded soccer team from North Korea and a working-class British town — one that has endured for six decades.

When North Korea arrived in Middlesbrough, in the north-east of England, to play its World Cup group stage matches, locals viewed the outsiders with curiosity and low expectations.

But the locals soon embraced the underdogs in red, drawn by a shared industrial identity, the team’s polite