Discover the Sunday League Squad With Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How do you improve a outstanding experienced side that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester club fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The squad list this season features 9 former Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and see are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a