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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester club fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this season features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The elite team also contains 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a