Liverpool legend Steve Nicol branded ‘AN IDIOT’ for saying he’d prefer ‘Invincible’ title win over another Champions League trophy

Andy Goldstein was forced to apologise for Jason Cundy on behalf of talkSPORT on Monday night for calling Liverpool legend Steve Nicol ‘an idiot’ LIVE ON AIR.

Things got heated between the former Chelsea defender and Nicol, after the Anfield great said he would prefer to see Jurgen Klopp’s side lift the Premier League as 'Invincibles' this season rather than win a treble.

It came after Cundy called a Liverpool fan ‘a disgrace’ and ‘deluded’ for phoning into the show to explain why he wants to end the season unbeaten rather than win a seventh Champions League crown.

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In response, Goldstein read out a quote from Nicol, who took it one further.

The former defender, part of Liverpool’s treble-winning team of 1984, said he would have given up his League Cup and European Cup medals from that season to have made history and ended the league campaign undefeated instead.

And he joined the show later on to back up his statement, saying he would love Klopp’s team to join an esteemed list of 'Invincible' champions, though Jamie Carragher disagrees.

"I love 'Bumper', but it would be another trophy for me," he wrote in response to Goldstein on Twitter.

Here's the exchange...

Goldstein: “Before I hand over to Jason, can you just confirm that you haven’t been misquoted and you did actually say you’d rather give up a treble to go the whole season unbeaten – did you say that?”

Nicol: “That is correct.”

Cundy: “Steve, we’ve had a lot of Liverpool fans phone up saying this and I’ve called them idiots, and so I have to call you an idiot as well.

“How can you say that?! How can you say you’d rather give up a TREBLE?"

Nicol: “You’re going to be the one who sounds like the idiot, because if Liverpool fans are calling in and telling you they’d rather do that, then surely they’ve got a better idea of it than you."

Cundy: But Steve, you can go the whole season unbeaten and still get relegated from the Premier League! Being unbeaten in a season, it’s okay, but if you draw every single game and get 38 points, teams have been relegated with 38 points.”

Nicol: what a ludicrous argument! You’re pulling something out that’s possible in the realms of fantasy, but it’s pretty nonsensical. You were a pro, you played at the highest level and you know how hard it is to go a whole season undefeated.

“The Champions League is cup competition and any team can win a cup competition. Sunderland won a cup competition years ago, Wimbledon beat us in an FA Cup final, but to go the whole season undefeated at this level is astronomical.

“There’s a reason why only two teams have ever done it, if you count Preston North End in the 1800s, and do you think for one second that any of these Arsenal players are going to be forgotten in a 100 years? Everybody is going to know they went unbeaten, it’s been done once in the modern era! That’s how difficult it is.

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“And by the way, we won a treble in ‘84 – we won the League Cup, the league title and the European Cup. So we’ve done the treble and we’ve won the champions league six times, but there’s one thing Liverpool have never done and that’s go the whole season undefeated.”

Cundy: So Steve, are you telling me that you would swap your League Cup and European Cup medals from ‘84 for an unbeaten record in the league that season?”

Nicol: Absolutely! And I would 100 per cent swap the Champions League this year for being Invincible.”

Cundy: Steve, I’m going to have to call you an idiot, just like everybody else. I cannot believe you’re saying that!”

Listen to the exchange between Jason Cundy and Liverpool legend Steve Nicol IN FULL above