Introduce the Sunday League Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

How do you boost a outstanding veteran side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club football and global football as you aim for further honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded team also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a