sport news Manchester United Treble hero Sheringham admits: 'I didn't want us to win it ...

Teddy Sheringham turns up straight from Camp Nou. Not the stadium. His house in Essex. When he built the property in 2005, it was the obvious name.

'You've got to call it something and Camp Nou seemed quite apt,' smiles Sheringham.

Twenty years on from his heroics in Barcelona and the former Manchester United striker is clearly happy to indulge in a little nostalgia.

This weekend, he will join his former teammates at Old Trafford to take on Bayern Munich in a re-run of that momentous 1999 Champions League final.

Sheringham doesn't look like he has aged a day or put on an ounce of weight since then despite turning 53 last month.

'I've had a bad knee and I've been trying to get it sorted out before the game so I don't embarrass myself,' he says. 'Normally my calves go when I do a little bit too much and play three games of tennis. I'm falling to bits.'

The anniversary game will be an opportunity to relive former glories with old friends he doesn't see as much as you might think.

Surprisingly, one of the players shaking hands with Sheringham will be Andy Cole after they ended a feud going back two decades, he reveals here for the first time.

Theirs was one of the most infamous fall-outs in Premier League history. A perceived slight when Cole made his England debut as a substitute for Sheringham against Uruguay in 1995 and a bust-up over a goal conceded at Bolton when they were teammates three years later meant the pair didn't exchange a word as United swept to the Treble in '99.

'I've just loathed him personally for 15 years,' Cole wrote in 2010.

'We never got on as players,' admits Sheringham. 'You get on with some people in the workplace, but some you don't like and don't want to be around.

'That was the case with me and Andy. We just didn't click. But we've made our peace.'

Even so, Sheringham really wasn't sure what to expect when Cole approached him in a nightclub. Was his old team-mate going to bury the hatchet or swing a punch?

'I was out with my mates and he was with his wife Shirley. I saw him walking towards me and I thought to myself "hold up",' recalls Sheringham.

'He's got quite a deadpan face anyway. There wasn't a big smile. I thought: "Here goes. Maybe after all these years..." I had my guard up.

'He came towards me and I could see Shirley looking at me thinking, "f***ing hell, what's going to happen?"

'He put his hand out and said, "let bygones be bygones and put everything behind us". I said, "wow, I didn't expect that. No problem". I shook his hand and that was that.'

While Cole formed a dynamic partnership with Dwight Yorke, Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer offered Sir Alex Ferguson a very effective Plan B that paid off spectacularly on a muggy night in Barcelona.

The ribbons in Bayern's colours were already on the trophy and the German players thought they had it won, much to Sheringham's annoyance as he warmed up on the touchline so desperate to get on the pitch that he didn't want the comeback to start without him.

'I think it was (Mario) Basler taking a corner and he was shouting out to his fans in the corner.

'It was a proper casual walk down there. "Everything is going fine, we've got it under control".

'I was warming up right in front of them. It riled me. Cheeky f***. It was a bit naughty that.

When Fergie told me I'd be going on, I thought: 'I hope the score doesn't change!' 

'Fergie told me at half-time that if the score stayed the same I'd be going on after 10-15 minutes. That's probably my abiding memory, thinking "let's hope the score doesn't change".

'It wasn't jealousy but I wanted to be part of the winning show. I didn't want us to make a comeback and win the game without me getting on.'

United's No 10 got his wish. He replaced Jesper Blomqvist in the 67th minute and equalised one minute into injury-time, re-directing a shot from Ryan Giggs into Oliver Khan's net.

'Giggsy's hit some thunderbolts with his right foot but he's hit a lot of bad shots too. This happened to be a bad one.

'It came bobbling towards me and I scuffed it. I tried to hit it as hard as I could on the turn, but it missed my foot and hit the sock around my ankle. I sort of pulled it in.'

Having been left out of the starting line-up, Sheringham and Solskjaer — an 81st minute substitute for Cole — were relishing the prospect of extra-time before the Norwegian's winner changed everything.

After I scored, me and Ole were excited about extra-time. 40 seconds later, he won a corner... 

'Me and Ole had that conversation going back to the halfway line after I scored. "Brilliant. We've got another half hour in this unbelievable arena on a special night, let's enjoy it". Forty seconds later we're up the other end and Ole wins a corner.

'Hold on a minute we've got a chance to win this. I like corners. I'm good at getting across people at corners. I'm fresh, I'm buzzing, I can jump 10 feet tall. Get that ball in the air, Becks knows where I like it.

'I got up a little bit too early and felt that if I had headed it for goal it was going over the bar because I was coming down slightly.

'The only thing I could do was flick it into an area and hope someone was there. That's exactly what I did and Ole took the chance with glee.

'I've never seen the game right through. I sat on the bench watching it once and that was enough! We weren't the best that night.

'How many times have I watched the last couple of minutes? Probably about 20. People show me it every now and then, as if I haven't seen it.

'But relived it? More so. I've done a couple of Q&As recently. Twenty years is over 7,000 days, and I reckon I've spoken about it 7,000 times since that night. But I don't mind.'