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What do you improve a excellent experienced team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have competed at the elite level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite roster also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a