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What do you enhance a stellar experienced team that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile team also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a