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How can you enhance a excellent veteran team who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global football as you pursue further trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this season includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

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

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - 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 attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a