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How do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a