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How do you enhance a stellar experienced squad that have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for further silverware.

One Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey 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 return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a