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What can you enhance a stellar veteran side that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of former professionals that have played at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 former top-flight players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team 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 enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they see 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 bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - 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 after. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a