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What can you enhance a outstanding veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have played at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day 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 bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a