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What do you enhance a excellent experienced team that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of former pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for additional silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This elite team also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

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

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

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

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

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a