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What do you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you target more honors.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

Their squad list this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just go 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.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

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

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a