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What do you enhance a stellar experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

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

Their squad list this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This high-profile squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a