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What do you enhance a excellent experienced side that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

This star-studded squad also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

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

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - 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 made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a