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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of former pro players who have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target more trophies.

One Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The high-profile team also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

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

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

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a