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What do you improve a stellar veteran side who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals that have played at the top tier of club and international football as you pursue more trophies.

One Manchester club has an amateur veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"That running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a