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What can you boost a excellent veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global football as you target more trophies.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

The elite squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a