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How can you enhance a stellar veteran team who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals who have played at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The high-profile team also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

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

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

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

"Our group literally haven't stopped 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 facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a