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How can you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

A Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a total 1,801 Premier League games.

The high-profile roster also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

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

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a