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How can you boost a excellent experienced side who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you target further silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with nine former top-flight footballers in their active squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

This elite squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed 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!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a