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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The lineup this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The elite roster also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home game against reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a