Former Maidstone United goalkeeper Lee Worgan looks back on the club’s 2016 National League South play-off final triumph at Ebbsfleet

If Maidstone players need any inspiration before facing Boreham Wood, look no further than the club’s previous National League South play-off final.

It was nine years on Wednesday since that remarkable afternoon at Stonebridge Road when United upset Ebbsfleet in one of the all-time classic promotion deciders.

Fleet, leading 2-1 through a pair of Danny Kedwell penalties, were seconds from victory and a place in the National League, when Dumebi Dumaka equalised in added time at the end of extra time.

Jay Saunders’ side went on to win 4-3 on penalties with Lee Worgan making the decisive save from Kedwell in the shoot-out.

Maidstone gave their annual nod this week to what quickly became known as ‘Lee Worgan Day’ in recognition of their former keeper.

He was so caught up in the intensity of the shoot-out, he only realised United had won when he saw team-mates charging towards him.

“I’ve watched the clip back, weirdly, quite a lot more in the last 12 months than I have done in the previous eight years or so,” said Worgan, 41.

“When players reflect, they have a moment where that’s your pinnacle, the moment in your career you always look back on as your time, and that was definitely mine, with that group, that club, at that time.

“Moments like that, that game, that day, will always be my finest time.

“I lived off it for a few years. It was a great time and one I do look back on at times and rewatch the clips.

“It’s a special club now, and it would have been before, but for me personally and the players who were there at the time, it just felt like such a special four or five years.

“The club had moved to the new stadium and we had the promotions and there just seemed to be a lot of success in a short space of time, which