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How do you improve a outstanding veteran side who have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the top tier of club football and global football as you aim for further trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The roster this campaign includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded roster also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

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

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a