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What do you boost a stellar experienced squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club football and global football as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"When you still love 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 see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

"That running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

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

"We literally have not ceased chatting 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 playing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a