FA CUP ACTION
By Andy Mitchell

WHATEVER happens at Portman Road on Saturday lunchtime, Maidstone United can bask in the knowledge that the virtue of patience has been rewarded.
George Elokobi is a little more than a year into his tenure at the Gallagher Stadium, one that many, even the most ardent of Stones fans, might have expected to be cut short in the summer.
Tasked with National League survival, the interim and later permanent boss took over a side sitting second bottom and three points from safety. There were 19 matches to try to achieve mission improbable but Maidstone won no...