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What can you improve a stellar veteran team who have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you target further honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

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

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

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

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a