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What can you enhance a excellent experienced side that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite level of club and international soccer as you target more silverware.

A Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their active roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this season includes nine ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

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

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a