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How do you boost a stellar veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have played at the top tier of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

The lineup this campaign includes nine former Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

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

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

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

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

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a