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04th Nov 2016

People are fascinated by the punditry notes and doodles of Michael Owen and Paul Scholes

There's Michael Owen, getting paid to watch football, drawing a banana...

Robert Redmond

Jake Humphrey has tweeted the studio notes belonging to Paul Scholes and Michael Owen, and it has fascinated some on social media.

BT Sports’ football presenter has previous for sharing correspondence with Scholes…

And just as some gathered from that exchange that the former Manchester United midfielder wasn’t in the mood for any inane b**ter with Humphrey, many are assuming from Scholes’ notes that he isn’t impressed with Jose Mourinho.

The United legend and Owen were on punditry duty for Fenerbahce’s 2-1 win over Mourinho’s side in the Europa League on Thursday night.

Scholes made his feelings pretty clear on the mess that is United at the moment following the game. ”

“We have had a painful three years,” Scholes said about his former club.

“The next 18 months to two years could be very similar until this manager gets the team he wants.”

However, that wasn’t enough for some, who sought to gain an insight into what Scholes really thinks about the situation at United by dissecting the details of his notes on the team sheets for the game.

CwXVCtrWEAAH_b1Jake Humphrey

If you said there was nothing to see here, just doodles and scribbles, the likes of which we were all guilty of when bored off our arses in school, you’d be very wrong.

No, this doodle shows Scholes has no time for Jose, and he thinks Marcos Rojo is either a “big worry” or a “big wimp.”

According to some on social media, anyway.

https://twitter.com/jameshunter96/status/794504536094343168

While it’s clear from Scholes’ notes that he considers Rojo to be unfit to play for United, and he’s plotting a coup against Mourinho, Owen’s err, ‘notes’, aren’t quite as easy to decipher.

The former Liverpool and United striker attempted to phonetically spell the surname of Simon Kjær, the Fenerbahce defender.

He also drew his own initials in block letters, alongside an exclamation mark, a wizard’s wand, a banana, what appears to be an arrow, and a strawberry with a face.

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Via Jake Humphrey.

https://twitter.com/daveymul/status/794282501896343552

https://twitter.com/TonyDoc88/status/794278099584159744

https://twitter.com/higgins12345/status/794283091204440064

What the hell does it all mean?

 

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