Introduce the Weekend League Squad Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you boost a excellent veteran team who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the highest level of club football and global football as you target further silverware.

A Manchester club has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go 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 running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a