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

How can you boost a excellent veteran side who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have competed at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you aim for further silverware.

One Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

Their lineup this season features nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite appearances.

This high-profile squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a