Simone Lambe and Petra Frings told to stay at home

Last week, we revealed that Croatia is a Pro-WAG nation - players have been banned from seeing friends at their Euro 2008 camp, but have been permitted as many conjugal visits as they please. As a result, they’ve pulled off a perfect record, including a shock victory over the Germans.

Despite this shining example of WAGs working in perfect harmony with a national side, Michael Ballack has declared war on his nations supporting ladies, insisting they are the reason behind Germany’s shaky start:

Skipper Michael Ballack is furious that his team-mates have been seeing too much of their wives and girlfriends.

Ballack and his senior sidekick Torsten Frings were still fuming that the rest of the squad spent the day after their defeat against Croatia last week - which left their quarter-final place on a knife-edge - with their WAGS.

Ballack and Frings were the only two who did not see their partners because they wanted to stay focused on football.

The Chelsea star may be right in claiming a WAG presence wrecks concentration - the lovely Sarah Brandner has been knocking about, and her man Bastian Schweinsteiger was needlessly sent off in the Croatia game. On the other hand, shut up Ballack.

[Daily Star]