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How do you improve a stellar experienced squad that have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

A Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The roster this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a