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What do you boost a stellar experienced team who have won back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players who have played at the top level of club and global football as you target more honors.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their squad list this season features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This star-studded team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

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

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a