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How do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals that have competed at the highest level of club and international football as you target further honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this season features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a