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What do you boost a stellar experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight games.

The high-profile roster also contains 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a