Discover this Sunday Division Club Featuring Over 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How do you boost a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

This star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a