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What can you improve a stellar experienced squad who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have played at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give someone's 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 the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

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

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a