Introduce the Weekend League Club Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

What can you boost a outstanding experienced team who have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

The squad list this season features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

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

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a