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How do you improve a outstanding veteran team who have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

The roster this season features nine former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This high-profile roster also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

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

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a