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What do you boost a stellar experienced team that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season features nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

The star-studded squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

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

"We went 1-0 up and had a