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What do you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- pro players that have played at the highest level of club football and global football as you pursue further silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League players in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not staying back 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 looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a