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How do you enhance a stellar experienced squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue more honors.

A Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a