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What do you improve a excellent experienced team that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue additional honors.

One Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

Their roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Experience

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

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a