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How can you improve a outstanding experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have played at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue further honors.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward 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 footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

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

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a