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What can you improve a excellent experienced side that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League players in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

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

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting 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 keep running.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a