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How do you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a group of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

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

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

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a