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How can you improve a outstanding veteran team who have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This elite team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also includes ex- professionals 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 pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a