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What can you boost a outstanding experienced side who have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you target further silverware.

One Manchester side has an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their roster this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

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

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a