Introduce this Sunday League Squad With Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Games

What do you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for further trophies.

A Manchester side fields an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this season features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"We went one-nil up and had a