The defender hadn't missed a minute of Boro's previous 85 league matches, stretching back almost two whole years to February 2016.

It was then that he missed our home fixture against Cardiff City due to suspension, coincidentally the final team he had faced in the run last Saturday before pulling out of Tuesday's game due to illness.

That leaves goalkeeper Darren Randolph as the only Boro player to play every league minute this season.

It's a great feat from the young centre-back, although he still falls some way short of David Armstrong's incredible Boro record of 305 successive league matches between 1972 and 1980.