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How do you enhance a excellent experienced side that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the top level of club football and global football as you target additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present roster.

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

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

The roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite squad also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a