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How can you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and international football as you aim for further honors.

A Manchester side has an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

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

Their roster this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The movement is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a