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How can you improve a excellent experienced squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you pursue further silverware.

A Greater Manchester team has an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

This star-studded squad also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

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

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

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

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a