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How do you enhance a excellent experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have performed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you target more honors.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their present squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

The roster this season features nine former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

This elite team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and see are happy 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 enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a