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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have secured consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the top level of club football and global football as you target further trophies.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back 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 players have secured 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

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

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a