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How do you improve a outstanding veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester club has an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

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

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

Their squad list this campaign includes nine former Premier League players, with a total 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded squad also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a