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What do you enhance a stellar experienced side who have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have competed at the elite tier of club and international football as you target more silverware.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

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

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give a 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 enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a