By Stuart Francis

EBBSFLEET UNITED 0

HARTLEPOOL UNITED 1
Mancini 59

TOP MAN! Hartlepool’s Anthony Mancini celebrates his winner
PICTURE: Dave Plumb

ANTHONY Mancini’s stunning second-half winner handed watching new Hartlepool United head coach Kevin Phillips the perfect boost.
The 22-year-old midfielder has missed a large chunk of the campaign with a hamstring injury but he stamped his mark on a game otherwise bereft of quality with a brilliant strike from 30 yards that went in off the crossbar.
It was enough to give No other team in the Fleet debutant centre-bac...