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How can you enhance a stellar veteran side that have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have competed at the top tier of club football and international football as you target additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite games.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little 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 hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a