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How can you improve a stellar experienced squad who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have competed at the top level of club and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

A Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees 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 big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 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 ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

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

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a