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How can you improve a excellent experienced team who have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League players in their current squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite team also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a