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How do you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club and global football as you pursue more trophies.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

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

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

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

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

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a