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What can you improve a outstanding veteran side who have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

The high-profile squad also contains 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton 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 ex- Premier League players have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those 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 really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a