Introduce the Sunday League Club Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have played at the elite level of club and global football as you target further honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their present roster.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League games.

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

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

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

"I warn 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 enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a