Carlo Ancelotti is wise enough to have known his perfect start to Premier League life would never last but even he could not have anticipated the crisis that threatens to overshadow Chelsea's season.
Ancelotti's side face Stoke this weekend seeking the fifth successive league victory that would maintain their 100 percent start to the season and consolidate their position at the head of the table.
But whatever the outcome of the game, the issue that will dominate matters at Stamford Bridge for the coming weeks is the potential impact of the FIFA-imposed transfer ban imposed because of alleged irregularities in the way the club signed French teenager Gael Kakuta from Lens.
Chelsea have vowed to fight the ban that would force Ancelotti to work with his existing group of players until January 2011, but with FIFA president Sepp Blatter talking tough, that threatens to be a long, drawn-out battle. Click to read more...
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