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What can you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a collection of former pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you pursue more silverware.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

The roster this campaign features nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If 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 turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

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

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not 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 playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a