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What can you improve a excellent experienced team who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active squad.

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

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

Their roster this campaign features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have won 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch 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."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"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 Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three 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 match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a