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How can you enhance a excellent experienced side that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have played at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Manchester club fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

The roster this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

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

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

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

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a