Shopping, drinking and posing for the cameras. It's been a hard slog for the glamorous wives and girlfriends of the England team as they stand by their men in genteel Baden-Baden.
The antics of the "WAGS" (wives and girlfriends), as they have become known, have been classic tabloid fodder and the British dailies have been lapping it up, eagerly reporting on the nights out, the rifts and the shopping sprees.
More used to retired German millionaires shuffling into the spas that it is famous for, the population of Baden-Baden has been knocked sideways by the arrival of the women and their designer handbags and fake tans.
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They are staying at the ?1,000 (US$1,817) a night Brenner's Park Hotel and the paparazzi with their long lenses have followed them.
Leading the pack is Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. At 32, Victoria is the doyen of footballers' wives having been there and done that.
While her appearance here in skimpy shorts sparked debate about whether she is too thin, she has otherwise maintained a low profile, looking after her three children and cheering on husband David.
The other WAGS have been more conspicuous, competing in the fashion stakes while seeing who can drink and spend the most.
"They swilled drink, smashed glasses, roared raucous chants and belted out bawdy sing-songs," yelled the Daily Mirror after some were spotted in one of the few late-night bars here where most of the other customers were reporters.
It said they rang up a bill of thousands of dollars after downing bottles of Moet champagne followed by glasses of vodka and Red Bull and shots of Sambucca.
The shopping sprees, meanwhile, have become legendary.
Mass market German daily Bild said six of the WAGS, including Posh and coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's girlfriend Nancy DellOlio, spent 80,000 euros (US$101,000) in one hour in the town's luxury boutiques.
The women blew 4,395 euros in 10 minutes alone on shoes and T-shirts, with the rest going on creations by Dolce and Gabbana, Prada and Versace, according to the report.
But as the weeks have passed and Baden-Baden has become known as Boring-Boring, tensions have grown and splits in the ranks have reportedly occurred, with some tiring of the others' antics and attitutes.
Ashley Cole's pop star fiance Cheryl Tweedy has become close to Posh and DellOlio, and Wayne Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin, who brought her own tanning consultant with her, has also sided with them.
"Victoria's been in this game for years. She's got decorum whereas some of the others couldn't even spell the word," the Mirror quoted an "insider" as saying.
Such has been the sideshow that Britain's "high-brow" media has also waded in, with the Sunday Times citing a survey by Carma, an international media analysis company, on which WAG has got the most press coverage.
The winner so far is Tweedy, a singer with the group Girls Aloud.
Next comes Posh, followed by Carly Zucker, the fitness instructor girlfriend of Joe Cole.
Following her is Melanie Slade, the student girlfriend of Theo Walcott, England's teenage striker who has yet to get a game. She beat off McLoughlin, and Abigail Clancy, the squeeze of Peter Crouch.
Next up was Elen Rives, the partner of Frank Lampard who was prevented from boarding her flight to Germany after throwing a tantrum when told she could not take six items of hand luggage with her.
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