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What can you improve a outstanding veteran squad that have secured consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you target further silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

The roster this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton 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 uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

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

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running 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 attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

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

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a