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How do you enhance a excellent experienced team who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest level of club and international football as you aim for further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

Their lineup this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

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

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a