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What can you boost a excellent experienced team that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite appearances.

The high-profile team also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

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

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a