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How do you enhance a excellent experienced team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals who have played at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for further trophies.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The roster this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile roster also includes 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

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

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

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

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a