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What can you improve a excellent veteran side that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have competed at the top tier of club football and international football as you target further honors.

A Manchester club has an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

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

The roster this season includes 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded team also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

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

"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 bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a