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What can you improve a excellent veteran team that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players who have competed at the top level of club and international football as you aim for more trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active squad.

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

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

Their squad list this season includes nine former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a