Meet this Weekend Division Club Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you enhance a outstanding experienced side who have secured consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have performed at the highest level of club football and international football as you target further silverware.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against 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 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother 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 guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a