Discover this Weekend Division Team With Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How do you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you pursue further honors.

A Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their lineup this season features nine former Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move 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 running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a