Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb admitted their midweek win at promotion rivals Havant was particularly sweet. There’s no love-lost between the two managers after previous incidents involving Kutrieb and his opposite number, Paul Doswell.
The game passed without incident on or off the pitch, although again there was no handshake between the two managers. “It means more than a normal game,” said Kutrieb, who saw his side return to top spot in National League South after Rakish Bingham’s 88th-minute winner. “This is the only ground where I have history.
I like most of their players, they have a lot of good players in their squad but there is history for me so it’s a big win and it means a lot.
The boys know exactly that. “It’s not because they are the second-best team, there’s still a long way to go and it doesn’t mean anything more than three points. “But from a personal point of view, it obviously means a lot for me.