THE women with whom Garry Flitcroft had affairs said today he had made the situation worse by attempting to hide it.

Nursery nurse Helen Hammonds, from Helsby, Cheshire, told The Sun: "He has made a thing out of all this that should never have been. He made it worse than it is by carrying on.

"He should have just done what anybody would do -- hold your hands up and say, I've been caught'."

The single mother, who said the star had proposed to her and hid the fact he was married, described the whole experience as "stressful".

During Flitcroft's legal battle to prevent the Sunday People exposing his adultery, Ms Hammonds was only named as Miss C.

The blonde told The Sun that if she were married to the footballer she would leave him.

Ms Hammonds said: "I wouldn't stand by him. It's up to her (his wife) as she's the one who has been through a hard time -- but I wouldn't."

Meanwhile Paula James, 25, referred to throughout the legal battle as Miss D, told the Daily Mail: "He's brought this on himself.

"It would have been chip wrappings a long time ago if had not gone to court to keep things out of the newspaper.

"It would have been a one-day wonder in one tabloid Sunday newspaper.

"Now it is going to be big news in every national paper in England."

The blonde now lives in a seaside suburb of Perth, Western Australia, where she uses the first name Pamela, the newspaper said.