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How can you boost a excellent experienced squad who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have played at the elite level of club football and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

The elite roster also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

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

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a