Twitter Mocks Wayne Rooney for His Childlike Handwriting

Manchester United's pre-season tour of the United States reached its conclusion on Wednesday night with a 2-0 defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in Chicago. The match didn't go to plan for the Red Devils, but Wayne Rooney was gracious enough to tweet out a message of thanks to supporters in his host country:

What appeared to be a nice gesture, however, soon became a source of mockery when fans around the world teased Roo for his penmanship. Some of the replies and responses to the tweet were quite amusing:

"

@WayneRooney that handwriting hahahahahaha

— CR (@SchneidBastard) July 30, 2015"

"

@WayneRooney he writes like a child ffs 

— Ibrahim Daud (@IbrahimDaud99) July 30, 2015"

"

@WayneRooney I didn't know you could spell

— Sean O'Connor (@seanolovelyguy) July 30, 2015"

"

Wayne Rooney's handwriting is absolutely indistinguishable from my 10 year old brother's. https://t.co/CFCRkWMiZz

— Patrick Ward (@Pat_Ward96) July 30, 2015"

One Twitter user had a theory about Rooney's writing technique and his rather original use of a stylus:

More than a few commenters inquired as to whether the Red Devils star was farming out social media duties to his children:

"

@WayneRooney did Kai write that?

— Der Fußballgott (@FutbolFinn) July 30, 2015"

"

@ThoseScouseLads @WayneRooney especially nice touch getting his youngest to write thanks USA for him 

— Jordan Warren (@JTW2205) July 30, 2015"

Some believed Rooney might have some kind of Superstition, so he took the Higher Ground and had a friend Sign, Seal and Deliver the tweet:

By this point, the handwriting jokes were getting a little long in the tooth, but that didn't stop Rooney's detractors from getting mouthy:

Many of Rooney's followers took the opportunity to parlay the handwriting conversation into some wider and more damning professional criticism: 

"

@WayneRooney You need to work on your control and dribbling

— Flexz (@DTCCLCS) July 30, 2015"

And, inevitably, some fans failed to see the irony of mocking a childish picture with very childish insults:

"

@WayneRooney u look like shrek

— Walk_Rob (@WalkerCr716) July 30, 2015"

"

@WayneRooney As tha head been re carpeted ?

— 33x (@33x) July 30, 2015"

Amid all the chaos and insults, there came the voice of reason. Rooney had just played a game, he was probably tired and it definitely isn't easy to write legibly on the screen of a smartphone:

"

Haha! Everyone taking piss out of Rooney's handwriting. It's hard writing on a touchscreen, but if he did it with a stylus, no excuse

— Lee Parkinson (@P4RTY) July 30, 2015"

Evidently, we can deduce that the good folks of Twitter are a little unsympathetic to the struggles of writing a nice message on a phone screen. We can also deduce that the people behind FootballFanCast.com can see into the future, if this tweet from March 2015 is anything to go by:

Yes, that is Rooney's son signing an autograph at a game. And yes, football will eat itself very soon. 

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