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How can you boost a outstanding experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have performed at the elite level of club football and international football as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

The high-profile roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

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

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a