Introduce the Sunday Division Squad Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How do you boost a outstanding veteran side that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

The squad list this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

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

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a