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How do you boost a excellent experienced side that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have played at the top level of club and international soccer as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite games.

The elite squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way 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 match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a