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What can you enhance a excellent experienced team who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite level of club football and global football as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

Their roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

The elite squad also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

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

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

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

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased 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 playing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a