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What can you improve a stellar veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals who have competed at the top tier of club football and global football as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

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

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

Their roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back 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 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a