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What can you boost a stellar experienced side that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have played at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

Their squad list this season includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward 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 top-flight footballers have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

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

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

"We literally haven't 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 game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a