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How do you boost a stellar veteran squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club and international football as you target additional honors.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The elite roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a