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How do you boost a excellent veteran side that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger 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.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a