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What can you improve a excellent experienced side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this season features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

This elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a