IT HAS now been a staggering 581 minutes on the field in which Cherries defender Jack Stacey has not conceded a goal this season.

That is nine hours and 41 minutes in total.

During that period, an array of other different sporting feats could have been achieved many times over.

The official marathon world record is Eliud Kipchoge’s time of two hours, one minute and 39 seconds.

With rest of course – he could do that more than four times during Stacey’s impressive clean sheet run.

Snooker fans, Ronnie O’Sullivan’s fastest ever 147 maximum break is five minutes and eight seconds.

The Rocket could have cleared the table 113 times at present, with Stacey still yet to concede.

For something a little different, Harry Potter fanatics could have watched the first three movies (totalling 455 minutes) and had time for breakfast, lunch and dinner - the full-back would have still not let in a goal.

But, speaking to the Daily Echo following Saturday’s latest shutout against Reading, 25-year-old Stacey insisted there was no wizardry behind his remarkable statistic. Just hard work.

He said: “When the full-time whistle goes, I think ‘there’s another 90 added on to the minutes’. We are adding them up and see where we get to!

“I think it’s the outcome of all the process. I have been on the pitch with Lloyd Kelly, Gary Cahill, Jordan Zemura and Mark Travers.

“We have all kept the clean sheets and maybe I have just played a few, fewer games than them.

“But I think as a statistic for the team, the amount of clean sheets we’ve had and the little amount of goals we conceded is something we can all be proud of.”

He added: “It’s just a bi-product of the process that we put on the training pitch – the things that Scott Parker and the assistant Matt Wells have introduced.

“Teams are finding it tough scoring against us.

“The whole time I was out of the team, my only job was to make sure I was ready when I did come in. I’d like to think that is showing now on the pitch.”

Stacey, who has played seven times in the Championship for the Dorset club this season, put in another impressive performance during Saturday’s 2-0 victory over the Royals.

Cherries are now 15 games unbeaten in the division, a haul which has set a new club record as they sit at the top of the Championship.

Boss Parker has admitted he is slightly superstitious – keeping on his lucky jacket on matchdays while the impressive run continues.

But has Stacey himself developed any rituals throughout his remarkable feat?

He said: “Personally I don’t, I am sure many of the players do and I have to thank them for that because their superstitions are working!

“There’s a few people who will always put their right sock on before their left. People have a few weird pre-matches which I wouldn’t personally eat but if it’s working, keep going.

“I don’t know if it’s a superstition but Emi (Marcondes) had pancakes on toast in the morning – if it’s working, keep going. That’s his fuel before training, I don’t know if it’s a Danish thing?!

“But I think we almost breed confidence. Even when we are up against it in the first five or 10 minutes, you always feel like if we can weather the storm we can win this game.

“That’s what keeps the runs going, it’s the confidence and the intensity of going every single game.”

Next up for Cherries is a home clash with Preston North End on Wednesday evening, as Parker’s side look to make it 12 league victories out of 16.

“It’s what we love. When you are winning games you want games to keep coming,” said Stacey.

“We are going to be confident going into that game but we know in this division anyone can beat anyone – it’s a chance for us to keep the run going.”