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How do you boost a outstanding veteran side that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you target additional honors.

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

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This high-profile squad also contains 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a