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What can you improve a stellar experienced team who have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have performed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue further honors.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The squad list this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

The star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a