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How can you improve a stellar veteran squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have performed at the top level of club and global soccer as you aim for more trophies.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

The squad list this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

This elite squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a