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What do you boost a excellent veteran team that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The roster this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a