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How can you boost a excellent veteran side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of ex- pro players who have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you target more trophies.

One Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The elite squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a