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How do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the top level of club and global football as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

The lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The elite team also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move 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 keep running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a