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How can you improve a excellent experienced team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have played at the top tier of club and global football as you target more honors.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a