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How do you improve a stellar experienced squad that have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the highest level of club football and international football as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile roster also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If 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 people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a