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What can you improve a outstanding veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have played at the elite level of club and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded squad also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a