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What do you boost a outstanding experienced side that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for more silverware.

A Manchester club fields an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded team also includes 222 top division goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a