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How can you improve a excellent veteran side that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the highest level of club and global soccer as you pursue more honors.

A Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with nine former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit 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.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top 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 ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a