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What do you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and international football as you pursue further trophies.

A Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active squad.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

Their squad list this season features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite games.

The elite squad also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

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

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a