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How do you improve a excellent veteran side who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the top tier of club football and global football as you pursue more silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

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

"Also Emile [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 player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a