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What can you boost a stellar veteran squad that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have competed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The roster this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded team also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

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

"Our group really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a