If there was a World Cup for designer shopping, the WAGs (the England team wives and girlfriends) would be clear favourites.
In the clothes shops of Baden-Baden yesterday, a four-girl strike force spent £4,000 in just under an hour.
Carly Zucker, Lisa Roughhead, Michaela Henderson-Thyne and Vanessa Perroncel (partners of Joe Cole, Michael Carrick, Stuart Downing and Wayne Bridge respectively) went through the town's upmarket mall, Monica Scholz, and emerged laden with Gucci, Prada and D Squared T-shirts, shirts and shoes!!!
Just think what the cost would have been if Victoria Beckham had been there!! What does Nancy Del Olio look like??