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What do you boost a outstanding veteran team who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a