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What do you improve a stellar veteran side who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former professionals who have performed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

Their squad list this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

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

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a