Although I intensely dislike Gerrard,I wouldn't put him in the same bracket as Barton.
I've been re-goin through his f#ck ups on wickipedia and it just brings it back what a total scum bag he is.
This bit made me laugh though...
The club suspension was widely reportedly to have resulted not directly from the red card, but from a dressing room confrontation with Shearer and assistant manager Iain Dowie following the game. Shearer said he made a mistake putting Barton back into the team, and that his tackle was "a coward's tackle", to which Barton replied that he was "the best player at the club", and Shearer had to play him. Shearer said that Barton wasn't, that he was "shit".[99] Barton replied that Shearer was "a shit manager with shit tactics". When Dowie intervened, Barton called him "a prick"
The mans his own worst enemy.