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How can you improve a excellent veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have performed at the top tier of club football and international football as you aim for more silverware.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

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

The lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This elite team also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a