Dagenham 0 Gravesend 4

GRAVESEND & Northfleet continued their red-hot streak in the Conference as they stuck a knife into the heart of the Daggers.

And boss Garry Hill decided enough was enough and resigned immediately after the game, rather than at the end of the season when he originally planned to do so.

That’s seven games without a defeat for Fleet, six of them wins, and manager Andy Ford was delighted.

The first-half was largely forgettable. Fleet came closest to scoring when James Pinnock hit Tony Roberts’ bar and Ben Surey hit two long-range shots wide.

But two minutes after the restart, Moussa Sidibe challenged Roberts for a Lee Gledhill free-kick and the ball fell to Roy Essandoh, who fired in his sixth goal for the club.

Within a minute, Dagenham were dealt a further hammer blow when Chris Piper was given his second yellow card for a foul on Justin Skinner.

That opened the floodgates and the second goal came just before the hour. Again, the trouble came from a Gledhill free-kick, this time Essandoh flicked the ball on and Pinnock fired it home.

Fleet continued to dominate and Ben Walshe, on-loan from QPR, put the final two nails in the coffin.

The first came from Sidibe’s run down the right before he pulled the ball back to Walshe who side-footed home.

Then Walshe linked up with Essandoh who cleverly backheeled the ball into Walshe’s path and he made no mistake.

Ford said afterwards: “I didn’t think the first-half was very good, but we showed more quality in the second-half.

“I just asked them to come out and start believing in themselves more.”

Gravesend: Wilkerson, Lee, Skinner (Rouse 55), McKimm, Essandoh, Pinnock (Walshe 66), Moore, Perkins (Owen 87), Sidibe, Gledhill, Surey. Substitutes unused: Mitten, Drury.