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How can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have performed at the highest level of club football and global football as you pursue further honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

The squad list this season features 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a