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What do you enhance a excellent veteran side that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of former pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

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

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking 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 facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a