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What do you enhance a stellar experienced side that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester side has an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

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

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

The roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a