They've been keeping a low profile – but that is all about to change as they fly out for the Euro 2012 Sweden game
Age: Under 30.
Appearance: Tanned, plucked, coiffed, waxed, buffed, curled, straightened, manicured, pedicured and shellacked. And until now, missing in (in)action.
You're right, I haven't heard much about them in the run-up to this latest fantastically boring and inexplicably popular footballing event. Have they been discreetly banned by the prime minister lest their evident riches prove that we are not in fact all in this together? I don't think he has that kind of power.
Has Missoni not done anything this season that goes with England's away strip? Missoni is noted for its enthusiastic use of colour and pattern. I'm sure they've found something to wear.
Then they're either making a silent protest against Roy Hodgson's unfashionable embrace of the 4-4-2 formation or have decided to stage a collective emancipation from a wholly disempowering stereotype. To be honest, it's probably not that either.
Well, what is it then? The wives and girlfriends of footballers have been encouraged to keep a lower profile since they first emerged with such glittering force during the 2006 World Cup in the German spa town of Baden-Baden. They were accused of distracting the players and their conspicuous consumption of everything but food was denounced for bringing British womanhood into disrepute.
Weren't they all but confined to barracks in South Africa at the following World Cup? Rusticated in Rustenburg. It was harsh. But possibly fair.
So the next generation has learned its lesson, has it? We'll see. Coleen Rooney – Wayne's wife, to whom Victoria Beckham's queenly Wag crown has passed – has just flown out to Krakow in her private jet, and the rest of her well-groomed cohort are due to arrive there in time for England's game against Sweden on Friday.
It will be nice for them to be able to thank the women who provided most of their hair extensions in person, won't it? If they ever leave their luxurious hotel compound – it has a massage room made of bricks of salt! – I'm sure they will take the opportunity to express their gratitude.
Do say: "Good luck England, and nice nails, girls!"
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