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How can you improve a excellent experienced side who have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals who have performed at the top tier of club and international football as you pursue additional honors.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

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

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

Their lineup this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a