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How can you enhance a outstanding veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have played at the top level of club and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

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

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love running 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 attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a