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How do you improve a excellent veteran squad who have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite team also contains 222 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a