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Premier League winner’s 21-year-old son finding success as a non-league manager

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Raffy Pearce, who has Jarvis Brook on an eight-match unbeaten run, has ‘always had a love’ for life as a football manager. The Crowborough-based side play in the Southern Combination League, which is step six in English football. Pearce is a young presence on the sideline in Step 6 supplied Pearce, 21, has been around football all his life, with his dad Ian a Premier League winner with Blackburn and accumulating over 150 appearances for West Ham. “I have been talking about football with my dad since the age of 8, and when you are exposed to that over a long period of time you build up a good knowledge of the game,” Pearce said. Pearce’s dad is now the director of football at Championship club West Brom and is still someone that Raff turns to for knowledge. “When I told him I was going to manage, he just said, ‘Go for it’, and I ask for lots of personal advice and try to take tips from what he sees at West Brom,” Pearce said. How did Raff Pearce get into coaching? His interest in coachi