GRANDMOTHER Helga Hutchinson sent soccer players for an early bath when they parked in front of her home.

She was fed up of asking them politely to move their cars and took matters into her own hands.

She picked up her referee's whistle, which she uses to call her dog, and blasted it three times from her front garden.

The game on the playing field opposite immediately came to a halt as the baffled players looked at each other.

Having secured their attention, German-born Helga shouted: "Will you move these flaming cars?"

The players fell about laughing - but the culprits did as she instructed.

Retired interpreter Helga, of Teesville, Middlesbrough, said: "I had already been over to the field to ask whose cars they were.

"I thought, why should I go over there again? So I stood in my front garden and blew the whistle.

"The game stopped and they looked dumbfounded. I pointed to the cars and told them to move them sharpish."

It isn't the first time players have incurred Helga's wrath.

On a previous occasion, she waited until half time before she tackled them about their swearing