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What can you enhance a outstanding veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you target more trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

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

"Our group really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a