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What do you improve a excellent veteran squad that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have played at the top level of club football and international soccer as you target further trophies.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The squad list this season features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - 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, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a