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How can you improve a stellar experienced team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you aim for more silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their roster this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees 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.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a