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What do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

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

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur vets team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a