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How do you enhance a outstanding veteran side that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the highest level of club football and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 Premier League matches.

The star-studded team also contains 222 top division scores and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side 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 feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a