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How do you improve a excellent veteran team who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the top level of club and international football as you target more trophies.

One Manchester club fields an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also includes 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a