Maidstone at home provided a rather uneventful first-half until five minutes before the break when the Maidstone centre-forward advanced unchallenged before firing a hard accurate shot past John Swannell to give the visitors a half-time lead.

The scorer's name was Angel, but if this was "the answer to a Maidstone's prayer" final judgement descended in the form of goals by Mickey Cannon (54 minutes) and Bobby Wilson (76 minutes) to give us a 2-1 victory.