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What do you enhance a stellar experienced side that have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - 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 continue attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

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

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a