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How do you enhance a stellar veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals that have performed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you pursue more honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight footballers in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

Their squad list this campaign includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see 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 bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go 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 continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a