Maidstone drew 4-4 with Woking on a crazy afternoon at Kingfield.

Goals from Kane Ferdinand and Inih Effiong were cancelled out by Stuart Lewis and Jai Reason’s penalty before Joe Pigott made it 3-2 as Maidstone scored twice in a minute.

Charlie Carter controversially levelled early in the second half but United went back in front with Lewis’ second goal.

That wasn’t the end of it, though, with Jason Banton quickly making it 4-4.

Both sides had chances to win one of the most open games you’ll see and, by the end, the only surprise was that neither scored again.

Maidstone were slow out of the blocks, just as they were when these sides met here in last season’s 4-2 cracker which eventually went their way.

Woking, with big striker Effiong a handful, created a series of half-chances, while Lee Worgan tipped over Charlie Carter’s volley before the Cards went in front.

The goal came in the 21st minute in strange circumstances after Lewis lost possession in midfield.

United, expecting an offside flag, appeared to stop playing when the ball reached Ferdinand.

Judging by the Woking man’s cheeky lob it was almost as though he felt the flag would be going up too - but it didn’t.

Maidstone levelled five minutes later with Pigott finding Loza before Lewis’ deflected strike from the edge of the area wrongfooted keeper Nathan Baxter.

Woking were back in front in the 34th minute.

It was a bad one to concede with Effiong given time to get his shot away from just outside the box and you can only guess Worgan didn’t get much of a look at it.

Back came the Stones, scoring twice in the 42nd minute to lead at the break.

Reason equalised from the spot after Loza was fouled in the box, then Pigott beat Baxter with a beautiful chip.

A crazy game was all square five minutes into the second half.

Seth Twumasi had done brilliantly to hold off man mountain Effiong but was then wrestled to the floor.

Amazingly, referee Neil Hair waved play on with Effiong finding Carter who fired home.

Stones were furious but regained the lead in the 53rd minute courtesy of Lewis’ second.

They’d been screaming for a penalty but a corner was given and while Lewis’ shot was blocked, he thumped home the follow-up through a crowd of players.

That was never going to be the end of the scoring and, sure enough, Woking made it 4-4 on the hour when Banton’s deflected 20-yarder gave Worgan no chance.

Pigott went close from Tom Wraight’s flick-on as United threatened a fifth while Woking had a goal ruled out for a foul on Worgan and saw Ferdinand miss a good chance as a crazy game continued to go from end to end.

Stoned introduced Johan ter Horst and his ball across the six-yard box was crying out for a finish moving into the last 10 minutes.