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How can you improve a stellar experienced side that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more silverware.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The elite team also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up 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 having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a