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What can you boost a excellent experienced team that have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you target further silverware.

One Manchester club fields an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

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

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - 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 choose?

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

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a