Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb says altercation with Cheshunt boss Craig Edwards hasn’t changed his love of English football’s passion

Ebbsfleet manager Dennis Kutrieb insists he still loves football in this country despite another unsavoury incident last weekend.

The Fleet’s title-winning German manager was floored in his own technical area by Cheshunt boss Craig Edwards near the end of their 3-0 home win at Stonebridge Road last Saturday.

On the back of two racism incidents with Havant’s then manager Paul Doswell, you could have forgiven title-winning Kutrieb for having enough after three years in England.

But he still loves the passion and emotion of the game in this country.

“That’s one of the reasons why I love to be here,” said Kutrieb. “It’s not always nice, like Saturday, it was nasty to do it.

“But at the end of the day we are all very passionate about our team, about how football goes, about opinions and that’s why I love this country so much.

“Everyone is really passionate about it, the fans, other managers, teams. You can see his team tried hard to get something out of the game but we were relentless and just kept going.

“I’m not too worried, racism is a different story, but everything else I really do like it because that’s what football is about.”

The hope for Ebbsfleet is that with fourth officials deployed in the National League, incidents like the one last weekend are even less likely to occur.

“We will see,” noted the Fleet boss. “It could still kick-off but maybe the fourth official is there to calm things down and make sure nothing can happen.

“I’m not too bothered about it, my focus was on the pitch and I was just concerned about Franklin Domi. When he went down, even with his head he hit the floor because he was gone when there was a head collision.

“Their manager had nothing better to do than to moan at the referee that he stopped