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What do you improve a stellar experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players that have competed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this season features nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile team also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - 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 people who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

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

"I tell 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 good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a