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What can you improve a outstanding experienced team that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the top level of club and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This high-profile roster also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

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

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a