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How can you boost a excellent experienced squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club and global football as you target additional honors.

One Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The elite squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"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!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - 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 movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

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

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

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a