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What can you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Manchester side has an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a