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How do you enhance a stellar veteran squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have competed at the top level of club and global soccer as you target more silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

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

In total, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

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

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a