Introduce the Sunday League Squad Featuring 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How do you improve a excellent veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you aim for additional trophies.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

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

The roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," 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 shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like 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.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a