Introduce this Sunday Division Team Featuring 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you improve a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League appearances.

This elite team also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

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

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say 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 people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

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

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a