Discover this Weekend Division Squad Featuring 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How do you improve a outstanding experienced squad who have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have played at the top level of club and international football as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a