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How do you boost a outstanding experienced side that have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club and international football as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

Their lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also 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 player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a