{"id":494055,"date":"2026-02-21T06:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:15:25","slug":"favourite-chelsea-six-a-side-england-rugby-stars-ollie-lawrence-and-nick-isiekwe-news-official-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/494055\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite Chelsea six-a-side: England rugby stars Ollie Lawrence and Nick Isiekwe | News | Official Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    It is a conversation which has taken place in pubs and sitting rooms across the country for almost as long as the sport itself has existed. So when we were joined by a couple of Blues from England\u2019s rugby union squad, we thought why not ask them too!&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>Ollie Lawrence is set to start at centre for England against Ireland this afternoon, while lock Nick Isiekwe is also part of the Six Nations squad.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, along with another England star, Chandler Cunningham-South, they took a break from preparations for the Six Nations to watch our game with Leeds United from the Dugout Club at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, we caught up with all three men and asked Ollie and Nick to name their best ever Chelsea six-a-side team.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: The goalkeeper is an easy one.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Yeah, you already know who\u2019s in goal!<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: Cech!<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Cech.<\/p>\n<p>Defenders<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: What we playing: two at the back, two in the middle and one up front?<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Yeah. So JT (John Terry)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: And\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nick: I would say Carvalho you know. Or David Luiz was good\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: Yeah. And it would be good to have a quicker player as your centre-back. Like you could have a right wing-back-type player like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/reece-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reece James<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Or we could go JT and Gary Cahill as they were great together. But I\u2019ll let you pick.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: Ok, let\u2019s go JT and Reece.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Yeah, I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: I need Kante in there.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Yeah, you have to have Kante in there.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: This is so hard. You have to have Eden Hazard in there.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Anyone else? I\u2019m trying to think of that Champions League team.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: What about Joe Cole?<\/p>\n<p>Nick: Well, considering he is over there [working for TNT Sports]. Yeah, we could go Joe Cole! But think it is Kante and Hazard.<\/p>\n<p>Striker<\/p>\n<p>Nick: It has to be Didier Drogba for me.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie: Yeah Drobga. Definitely.<\/p>\n<p>Ollie Lawrence and Nick Isiekwe\u2019s best Chelsea six-a-side team: Petr Cech; John Terry, Reece James; N\u2019Golo Kante, Eden Hazard; Didier Drogba<\/p>\n<p>You can hear more from Isiekwe, Lawrence and Chandler-South<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/ollie-lawrence-nick-isiekwe-chandler-cunningham-south-chelsea\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> by clicking here<\/a> or watching the video above and if like the England trio, you want to watch the Blues from some of the best seats in the house at Stamford Bridge\u2019s Dugout Club, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hospitality.chelseafc.com\/match-by-match-hospitality-packages\/dugout-club-home?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=hospitality&amp;utm_campaign=180226_ClubChelsea2526_EnglandRugbyDC_HospMBM\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; It is a conversation which has taken place in pubs and sitting rooms across the country for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-494055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}