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What do you boost a stellar veteran side that have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of former pro players that have played at the elite tier of club football and global football as you aim for further silverware.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The squad list this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

This elite squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they watch 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."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different 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 continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

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

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a