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“Super ball. Collin again! What a moment for Maidstone United. Three minutes left. It’s all gone amber.”

Not quite Kenneth Wolstenholme’s ‘ They think it’s all over’ but a piece of commentary from BT Sport’s Derek Rae that Maidstone fans will remember for years.

The Gallagher Stadium was the place to be last Thursday night and nobody will forget the moment Frannie Collin’s 87thminute header saw Maidstone sink League 2 Stevenage in the FA Cup first round replay.

The atmosphere

was something else and it was no wonder boss Jay Saunders hailed it as his best moment in football, just after getting caught up in a pitch invasion.

Extra-time was looming when Jay May held off his man and fed substitute Ben Greenhalgh down the left.

A bit of trickery from Greenhalgh was followed by a perfect cross that was powered home by Collin for his second goal of the game.

Maidstone, of the Ryman League Premier Division, thoroughly deserved to beat a Boro team who play three levels above them but nobody could quite believe it.

And having been the villain with his criticism of United’s 3G pitch in the build-up, Boro boss Graham Westley even admitted the better side won.

You feared for Stones when it emerged captain Steve Watt was out injured.

Not because Jamie Coyle wasn’t an able replacement, simply because Watt had been so influential in the first game at Stevenage.

As it was, Stones coped brilliantly without their leader with Sonny Miles and Coyle colossal at the back.

In theory, Stevenage had Stones sussed after the first game and it was about not conceding early for Saunders’ men.

That was turned on its head