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How can you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have played at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you aim for more trophies.

A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

Their roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

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

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

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference 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 nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

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

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a