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What do you enhance a excellent veteran team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest tier of club and global football as you target more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this season includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

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

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn 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 good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a