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What do you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of former pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender 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 footballers have claimed 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 English caps.

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

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

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

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a