Many of the residents of Baden-Baden have expressed disappointment that the WAGs, as they are known, have shown little interest in the spa town's cultural attractions.
Sir Bobby Robson believes they should never have been allowed to stray from home in the first place.
'We're going to war,' he said. 'You can't fight a war worrying about your wife or child. For one month, kiss them goodbye.'
Fellow pundit and manager of Wigan Athletic, Paul Jewell, has also expressed disapproval.
In Germany too, resentment is building.
'It's more like a hen night the way they behave - a military-style operation where everyone has to drink themselves under the table,' football writer and author Markus Hesselmann said curtly.
'English women seem to treat their bodies as something to gradually dismantle. The Germans in contrast want to preserve theirs.'
Other English pundits agree with Sir Bobby that the WAGs should not have been allowed to go to Germany.
The BBC's Alan Shearer pointed out that the players were in the country 'to play football' while former Celtic manager Martin O'Neill observed that when the players were reunited with their partners after their match against Paraguay they had not seen them 'for all of 20 minutes'.
Brenner's Park Hotel, where the women are staying at their own expense with a contingent of family and friends has been nicknamed ' Little Liverpool' by some.
'The hangers-on are more the problem than the wives,' explained the pianist in the hotel bar.
'They drink so much. Every night, you know? I don't know where they put it.'
Rudiger Biermann, head of PR at the town's famous concert hall, had invited the women to pay a visit.
'We thought they may be interested in seeing one of the world's largest opera houses. But so far they haven't replied.'
Edith Kopf, news editor of the local paper, said: 'I don't understand why they don't visit the two amazing art museums we have here.
'We have such great contemporary art. But maybe they just aren't that kind of women.'
