Meet this Sunday Division Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Games

What do you improve a outstanding experienced side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a group of former pro players who have performed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target additional trophies.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

The roster this campaign includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile team also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a