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What do you boost a outstanding experienced side who have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you target more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile roster also includes 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a