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What can you improve a excellent experienced side who have secured consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals that have competed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The lineup this campaign features nine ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 top-flight appearances.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a