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What can you improve a stellar veteran side that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The elite squad also includes 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football 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 watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a