Introduce the Weekend League Club Featuring Over 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How can you enhance a excellent experienced team that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players that have competed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their active roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

This elite squad also includes 222 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

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

"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 game - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a