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How do you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have competed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with nine former Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

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

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a