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How do you improve a stellar experienced side that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you aim for further silverware.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their present squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and see 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 somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a