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What can you boost a excellent experienced team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you target more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign features nine former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - 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 attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a