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What do you improve a stellar veteran side who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have competed at the top tier of club football and international football as you aim for more silverware.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

Their lineup this season includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a