Introduce the Sunday Division Team Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How do you enhance a stellar veteran side that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you target more honors.

One Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight appearances.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

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

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a