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How can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals that have competed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love 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 running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

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

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a