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What can you improve a excellent experienced team that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you target further honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The squad list this season features 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a