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What can you improve a excellent veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals who have played at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for further trophies.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English 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 have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a