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What can you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club football and global football as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

The elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

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

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

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a