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What do you boost a outstanding experienced team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and global football as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight games.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Feeling

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

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

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

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

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a