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What do you improve a excellent experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have played at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine former top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

The lineup this campaign includes nine ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a