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How can you boost a excellent experienced squad who have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

Their lineup this season includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say 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 fans who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side 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 talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a