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What do you boost a excellent veteran side who have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite squad also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's 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 play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

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

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a