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What do you improve a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The roster this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing 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, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a