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How can you boost a stellar veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you target further honors.

One Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This elite squad also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - 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 Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a