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How do you boost a stellar experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club and international football as you pursue more trophies.

One Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This star-studded team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a