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What do you improve a excellent experienced team who have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have competed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for more silverware.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The elite team also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder 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.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

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

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

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

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a