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How can you improve a excellent experienced squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of ex- professionals that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you pursue further trophies.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

The elite squad also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 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 made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

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

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a