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What do you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club football and global football as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

Their roster this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The elite team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley 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 top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

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

"We scored 1-0 up and had a