Steven Gerrard has always been a player who is very quick to publically condemn all the sins of footballers. As fans, we want to see diving and badgering the referee kicked out of the game, and Gerrard has spoken about both of these football crimes in his autobiography.

The Liverpool captain has been labelled a hypocrite in the past, as whilst playing for club and country, he has been guilty of diving.

The Merseyside derby exposed Gerrard even further. Following the World Cup last summer, the England team was left fuming that Portugese players surrounded the referee and asked for Wayne Rooney to be sent off.

"Players like Carvalho are damaging football, not Wayne Rooney," wrote Gerrard in his autobiography.

"It's coached into them that when an incident like that happens, they go to work on the ref.

"Ronaldo was at the front. But the blame does not just rest with him. Five or six Portuguese players were at it."

Gerrard won a penalty on Saturday's derby, and when referee Mark Clattenburg pulled out a yellow card, the Liverpool captain ran over to the referee and protested.

The referee did as he was told, and Everton went down to ten men.

Is there no end to the hypocrisy of England's vice-captain?

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