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What can you improve a stellar veteran squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target more trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their squad list this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded squad also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a