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What do you improve a stellar veteran side who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - 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 do?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a