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What can you improve a outstanding veteran squad who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top level of club and international football as you pursue more honors.

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

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The roster this campaign includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

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 first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a