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How can you boost a outstanding veteran side that have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

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

Their roster this campaign features nine former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - 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, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

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

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a