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How do you improve a outstanding veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you target more trophies.

One Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season features nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a