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What can you enhance a outstanding veteran team that have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

The squad list this season includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This elite squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey 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 Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a