Two hours before the lunchtime kick-off and the queues outside the Cobbold Stand turnstiles on Portman Road are already stretching towards Princes Street.
'We all can't wait. I haven't slept all night, just thinking about this moment. It's over a hundred years in the making and seeing us all here - it's really hit home', says 66-year-old Barry Fenn.
Barry is the caretaker at Maidstone United and has followed the club all his life.
'In 1987, we took two trainloads to Watford for the third round but that pales into complete insignificance with this.