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How do you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

This elite squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing 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 squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a