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How do you enhance a excellent veteran team who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the top tier of club and international football as you target more honors.

A Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

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

Their squad list this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This elite team also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a