Discover the Weekend League Club With 1,800 English Top Division Games

How do you boost a excellent experienced team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you target further silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their roster this season includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a