Discover this Weekend League Club Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What do you improve a stellar veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have competed at the top level of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

The squad list this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight matches.

This high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a