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What can you boost a stellar experienced squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have played at the top level of club and global football as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

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

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

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a