Introduce the Weekend League Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Games

What can you improve a stellar veteran side who have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target further honors.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

Their roster this season includes nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

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

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

"That's a bit 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 continue attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a