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How can you improve a stellar experienced squad who have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you target additional silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The squad list this season features 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The high-profile roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

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

"We literally have not stopped chatting 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 playing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a