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What do you boost a excellent veteran squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and global football as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a