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What do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

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

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their roster this season includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- 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 his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a