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How can you boost a stellar veteran team who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest level of club football and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester side has an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The elite roster also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a