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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran side that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight games.

This high-profile squad also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 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 SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a