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What do you enhance a stellar experienced team that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The roster this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

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

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a