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What do you boost a stellar experienced team that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have competed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

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

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a