Chelsea wing-back Reece James is happy former academy teammate Rhian Brewster is now a Premier League player with Sheffield United.

Not only were they team-mates in the same age group of the Chelsea Academy before Brewster moved to Liverpool aged 15 but, surprisingly given the direction James' career has taken since, they were also strike partners.

"I know Rhian Brewster well. We still talk, but obviously not as regularly as if he was still in the same changing room," James said ahead of today's FA Cup tie.

"He was a bit of a different player back then, he was tiny! Now he's massive, but when he was in the Academy here he was so small, and very fast.

"When I was that young I was an attacker as well, so I never really played against him, I was playing with him in attack. I don't remember who scored the most goals, though!"