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How do you improve a excellent experienced side that have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes 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, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have won 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

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

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

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

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a