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How can you enhance a excellent experienced team who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and international football as you pursue more silverware.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - 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.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a