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How can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have played at the top level of club and global football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like 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 had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn 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."

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a