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What do you boost a stellar experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have played at the highest level of club and global football as you target more silverware.

A Greater Manchester club fields an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season includes nine former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - 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 continue running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a