250 people contact police as UK soccer abuse scandal spreads (The Associated Press)

British police investigating sexual abuse in soccer have received calls from 250 people, the government announced Tuesday, as FIFA said the high-profile scandal could lead to offenses by youth development coaches being exposed worldwide. In a day of developments, Chelsea also opened an investigation into an employee from the 1970s who is now dead, while the English Football Association acknowledged it was braced for compensation claims. ''Since this has come out, 250 people have already contacted the police in England and Wales,'' Caroline Chisholm, a government spokesman in the House of Lords, told Britain's upper chamber.