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What do you improve a outstanding veteran team that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

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

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a