Discover this Sunday Division Squad Featuring Over 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

What do you improve a excellent experienced squad who have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have played at the elite level of club and global soccer as you target further silverware.

A Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present lineup.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight appearances.

The elite roster also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

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

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange 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 choose?

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a