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What do you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have played at the top level of club and global soccer as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

The squad list this season includes nine former top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting 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 bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a