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How can you improve a outstanding veteran team who have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the highest level of club and international football as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

This star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

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

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother 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 Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a