Sam Bone’s dreams of playing in the Premier League were destroyed by testicular cancer, but after rebuilding his career in Ireland, the Maidstone defender is forging a new fairytale in the FA Cup
Town top scorer Conor Chaplin is confident that he and his colleagues have got last week’s shock FA Cup defeat by non-league Maidstone United out of their system ahead of tomorrow’s Championship visit to Preston North End.
Blues penalty king Tommy Miller is the star of this week’s Life’s a Pitch TV, while we’re also joined once again by Maidstone midfielder Sam Bone, looking back at his week to remember, one for the rest of us to forget.
Town’s FA Cup run came to an embarrassing end at the fourth round stage as National League South Maidstone United defeated the Blues 2-1 at Portman Road. The Kent side, 99 places and four divisions below Town, went in front via Lamar Reynolds’s goal two minutes prior to half-time, before the Blues levelled on 56 via Jeremy Sarmiento and from there looked set to go on to win it. But Portman Road was stunned once again by Sam Corne’s second for the Stones and Town huffed and puffed without being able to find another equaliser, and crashed out of the cup.