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What can you boost a outstanding experienced team who have claimed consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have competed at the elite level of club football and international football as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

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

The elite roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick 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.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a