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How can you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have performed at the top level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

The roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a