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What do you boost a excellent experienced side who have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the elite level of club football and international football as you pursue more trophies.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

Their roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

This elite squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 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 bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a