Introduce the Weekend Division Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

What can you enhance a outstanding experienced side who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you aim for more honors.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

Their lineup this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

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

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a