Sunday's game between Sunderland and Oxford United was far from an FA Cup classic, but it offered us a reminder of just how fortunate we are to have Luke O'Nien at our football club.
Luke has been written off more times than I have had hot dinners down the years - yet almost eight years since he signed when we were in League One, he's still here, and absolutely smashing it and proving people wrong.
Obviously, he's a lot older and wiser now, and has improved so much, but I'm not even sure Luke himself could have imagined back then that he'd still be playing for Sunderland all these years later as a Premier League footballer.
Opportunities have been few and far between for him this season because of the unbelievable form of some of the other players, but he's stayed focused, hasn't complained and trained hard every day so that when his chances do come, he's ready.
He won the man-of-the-match award for his performance against Oxford, and his physical tussle throughout with Will Lankshear was probably the highlight of an otherwise relatively uneventful game.
I imagine that there were a queue of Championship clubs desperate to take Luke off our hands in January, but he had absolutely no intention of leaving, which was a huge relief to hear as I think we'd be a far poorer club without him in that squad and on the training ground every day.
He's now in his 30s and, given the rate at which we're progressing, it's entirely possible his time with Sunderland will soon come to an end, so I think it's important that fans cherish every opportunity we get to see him stroll out on to the pitch in red and white.
Well in, Luke - top class.
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