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How can you boost a excellent experienced side that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals who have played at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded team also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

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

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a