Discover this Weekend Division Squad With 1,800 English Top Division Games

How do you boost a outstanding veteran team who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have played at the top tier of club football and global football as you target further honors.

One Greater Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight appearances.

This elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you know 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 really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - 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 continue running.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a