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How do you boost a excellent experienced squad who have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have performed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move 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 continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference 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 explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a