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What do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have competed at the elite level of club football and global football as you target more silverware.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

This high-profile team also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League 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 Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young 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 former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a