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How can you improve a stellar experienced team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

The squad list this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This elite roster also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a