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How do you improve a stellar veteran side that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest level of club and global football as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have secured 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a