Introduce this Sunday Division Club With Over 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you improve a stellar veteran team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target additional silverware.

One Manchester side has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

Their roster this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a