Discover this Weekend League Team Featuring 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you improve a excellent experienced team who have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite level of club and global football as you target further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite squad also includes 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a