It comes after tickets for the 4,500 away fans sold out in just 100 minutes last weekend with queues stretching out to the main road beside the stadium.
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00:00 Seated, mic'd up and ready to face the country's press.
00:05 Maidstone United have already put themselves in the national spotlight and on Saturday
00:09 lunchtime they'll be facing their biggest crowd ever after reaching the FA Cup's fourth
00:14 round for the first time.
00:16 In the hot seats, manager and former Wolverhampton Wanderers player Georgie Lacobie, assistant
00:21 manager and former Birmingham City forward Craig Fagan, former Arsenal player and club
00:26 captain Gavin Hoyt and the man who got them all to round four with his stunning penalty
00:31 kick against Stevenage, Sam Corn.
00:33 "Every game we come across we try and do ourselves justice, we obviously go out and to win and
00:37 obviously we've shown that against two league sides already so come Saturday we're going
00:42 to try and give a good count on ourselves and we're going to look to go and win obviously."
00:45 "We're going to a special club in Ipswich Town and you know what's not to love about
00:51 that, what's not to celebrate about it but it's a historic moment and we just want our
00:56 players to go there and enjoy obviously competing against championship professionals and enjoy
01:06 showing kicks, showcasing their talents and making sure they do themselves proud and the
01:11 entire Maidstone community."
01:13 But how did they get here?
01:15 Well after a strong away tour in the qualifying rounds with two clean sheets and eight goals
01:20 scored it was time for another fixture on the road in the first round.
01:24 A relatively simple win over lower league Chesham United set up Maidstone's first home
01:29 fixture in round two.
01:30 This time they welcomed league two side Barrow to the Gallagher where an incredible late
01:34 shot from substitute Bivesh Gurung took Maidstone to round three.
01:39 Now as the competition overall underdogs, league one side Stevenage came to town and
01:43 in an incredible twist of fate Sam Corn's penalty conversion sent the Gallagher into
01:48 raptures and took Maidstone to the furthest they've ever reached in the cup.
01:52 "Listen, you sound like a good agent, if you leave your number on this table we'll put
02:03 you forward."
02:05 And so Georgie Lakobi's men are back on the road this week, swapping the Gallagher for
02:10 Portman Road.
02:11 The scenes when they beat Stevenage perhaps won't be repeated this time around but with
02:16 four and a half thousand Stones fans making the trip up they'll be sure to bring the atmosphere
02:21 with them.
02:22 Bartholomew Hall for KMTV in Maidstone.