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How do you improve a excellent experienced side that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global football as you target more honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The roster this campaign features nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded team also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley 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.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed 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 know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

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

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a