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What do you enhance a excellent veteran side who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

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

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

Their lineup this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a