Introduce this Sunday Division Club With 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How can you improve a stellar experienced team who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals who have competed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former Premier League players, with a total 1,801 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a