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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the top tier of club football and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a