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What can you improve a excellent experienced side who have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- professionals who have played at the highest level of club and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their present squad.

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

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

The lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield 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.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

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

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

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

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a