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How can you boost a excellent veteran side who have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have performed at the top level of club football and global football as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester side has an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

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

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

The roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a