By Nick Loughlin

DETERMINED: Craig Harrison has revived Hartlepool United, inset
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BACK in August the National League was a new experience for both Craig Harrison and Hartlepool United. Pools struggled desperately in the opening weeks of the campaign, winless in six. The hangover of relegation from the Football League was lingering.
Since then, however, Harrison’s Hartlepool have never looked back and the former Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace defender turned 40 this week with the Manager of the Month award safely tucked away for a successful October.
Pools were ...