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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players who have played at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their current roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

The squad list this season includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

This star-studded squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

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

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a