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How do you improve a stellar experienced squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the top tier of club football and international football as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Appearances

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

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

The star-studded team also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

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

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

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a