Meet this Weekend League Squad Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Matches

How can you improve a outstanding experienced side who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for further trophies.

One Greater Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a