Introduce this Sunday League Club Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

How do you boost a stellar experienced team who have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have played at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The elite team also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a