Introduce this Weekend League Club Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you enhance a excellent veteran team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest level of club football and international football as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

The squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic 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- Premier League footballers have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a