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What do you improve a outstanding veteran squad who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have performed at the top level of club and global football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

Their lineup this season features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

The elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic 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- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a