Boro's clean sheet king Dimi Konstantopoulos has signed a new deal that could take his football fairytale from the dole queue into the Premier League.
The Greek Dimi-god has penned a new one year extension to his existing Boro contract as a reward for a sizzling sequence of shut-outs.
The commanding keeper can boast an eye-catching 14 clean-sheets in 27 Championship games this season plus one more in two Capital One Cup appearances.
In the league the shot-stopper has conceded just a misery 13 goals and has only twice conceded more than one goal in a game - in 2-0 away defeats at Wolves and Ipswich.
In the previous campaign he stepped in to replace Shay Given and filled some big shoes in impressive style keeping six clean sheets in 13 games and conceded just seven goals.
Nailing down a first team place and a new deal completes a spectacular rise for the 36-year-old former Hartlepool keeper.
He was without a club in the summer of 2013 after a two year spell back in Greece and only in Teesside as his wife is from Hartlepool.
So he was effectively unemployed when he was drafted in by then Boro boss Tony Mowbray, initially to help out in pre-season training.
Mowbray needed an extra keeper to help out first choice Jason Steele in training routines and Dimi agreed to come in on a relatively low wage and a short term basis with no real expectation of playing.
He was behind Steele, Jayson Leutwiler and Connor Ripley - and slipped even further down the pecking order when Shay Given arrived on loan from Aston Villa.
But new boss Aitor Karanka was impressed with Dimi’s work-rate and attitude in training and with Steele injured and Given returned to Villa he grabbed his first team chance at the tail end of last term to earn a new one year deal.
Then after newly arrived rival Tomas Mejias had a shaky start at the beginning of this campaign he returned to nail down the No 1 shirt.
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