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How can you boost a excellent veteran squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have played at the top level of club and global football as you pursue further trophies.

One Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This elite squad also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

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

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

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a