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What do you enhance a excellent experienced side who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club and international football as you pursue additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite team also includes 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include one forward, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, 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 games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a