Gary Neville named Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole as the best strike duo he played with during his time at Man Utd, and revealed the secret behind their success.
The two strikers spearheaded United's charge to a momentous treble in 1999, scoring 53 goals between them in that season alone.
They kept the likes of Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer out the side, and Neville feels their partnership worked so well because they didn't care who hit the back of the net.
"I don't think they really hit it off to start with in memory," Neville said on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football. "I think it took like 10 or 15 games for them to get together.
" Leicester away sticks in my mind where they both played together and something happened that day.
"Then I think they started socialising together, getting on with each other. There was a respect between each other.
"The thing was about those two they didn't mind which one of them scored.
"And I think that's unique because when you've got a goalscorer like Cole, or players like Ruud van Nistelrooy or Michael Owen, it's always sort of the goalscorer needs to score for them to be happy.
"But actually with Coley and Yorkey they got to the point whereby they didn't care if either of them scored, they were both happy with each other."
Neville admitted he wasn't aware how good Yorke was when he signed for United from Aston Villa at the start of that treble-winning campaign.
And he feels the partnership Yorke formed with Cole was the most formidable he witnessed during his time at Old Trafford.
"Dwight Yorke, he was an unbelievable player, he could do all things, score goals, set up play, run in behind, dribble, bring other people into play. He was the all-round centre-forward," Neville added.
"When I first came into the team it was [Eric] Cantona and [Mark] Hughes, then that period we had Yorke and Cole, and Teddy and Ole, then it went into Ruud, and then Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez who were sensational as well.
"I'd probably say Yorke and Cole [were the best] just for that season where they were just absolutely sensational, the way they played together they just lit up the whole league, lit up Europe."
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