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How can you boost a outstanding experienced side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals who have competed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their active roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

The squad list this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded squad also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a