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How can you improve a outstanding experienced side that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals who have played at the highest tier of club football and international football as you pursue additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

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

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

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a