Discover this Weekend Division Club Boasting Over 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

What do you improve a excellent veteran side that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

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

The high-profile roster also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - 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 attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

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

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a