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What can you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have performed at the top tier of club and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

Their lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If 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 come and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes 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 brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a