ALAN WALKER rates Tuesday night’s win over Fleet as one of Maidstone’s best performances of the season.

A controversial goal by Ryan Royston gave United a 1-0 win, sending them three points clear at the top of Ryman League Division 1 South, with games in hand over all their closest challengers.

Walker, the Stones joint-manager, said: "They’re the best team we’ve played this season but we set out our stall to do a job and we did that. They fell into the trap of lumping balls forward and we dealt with that comfortably.

"We did the hard work well, tracking the runners and marking and the one time we fell down was when they hit the bar, but otherwise Pat Mullin didn’t have to make a save."

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