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How can you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have performed at the top level of club football and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The roster this season includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a