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What do you improve a excellent experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have played at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

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

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

"The fans who come and see are pleased and to give a 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."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 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 Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a