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What do you improve a stellar experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target more silverware.

A Manchester side has an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a