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How can you improve a stellar experienced team that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

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

The squad list this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile roster also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a