Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb has his say on Havant & Waterlooville boss Paul Doswell's 12-game ban for using abusive or insulting language

Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb insists he takes no satisfaction after rival boss Paul Doswell was given a 12-match suspension.

It’s the second time Havant’s Doswell has had an FA charge for abusive or insulting language aimed at the German proven in the past 14 months.

Kutrieb would rather the incident never happened in the first place, but he had to report it under FA regulations.

“Honestly, I would rather have him not being suspended and the case would never happen,” said Kutrieb, who took charge of Ebbsfleet in 2020.

“I’m not sitting here and saying I feel relieved or satisfied because it doesn’t bring me anything back from me feeling comfortable.

“As I said to you when it happened at the time, I felt very hurt and it was deep pain for me. It’s not easy. This is something from my point of view that if I could make a decision now I would rather that this never happened and everyone is fine.

“I’ve nothing else to say because he got punished but it doesn’t bring me anything.”

The charge related to a game that took place in September 2021, and was not heard until the end of February 2023.

It meant Kutrieb had effectively moved on from the incident with the hearing previously postponed on a number of occasions.

“In my head it was already gone,” he added. “I was not expecting anything from it because there were a few appointments already scheduled and they [kept being] cancelled so I was not bothered about it.

“In my head I said nothing would happen anyway and I wasn’t expecting anything.”

Kutrieb understands the game’s emotions but there’s a line that can’t be crossed, even if the boundaries in football are stretched more than other sports.

“I think football is such an important game and you have to be up for it,” he