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How can you improve a excellent veteran squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The elite squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a