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What can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players who have played at the elite level of club football and international football as you aim for further silverware.

One Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 elite appearances.

The elite squad also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a