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How can you boost a excellent experienced side who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of former pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

Their squad list this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

The elite team also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 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 brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a