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What can you improve a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players who have competed at the top level of club and international football as you target additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

The squad list this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic 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 footballers have won 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a