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How can you enhance a excellent experienced squad who have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and international football as you target further honors.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton 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.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not staying back 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."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a