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What do you enhance a excellent veteran team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 top-flight games.

The star-studded team also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

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

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"Our group really have not ceased 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 match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a