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How can you improve a excellent experienced side that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Division.

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

In total, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a