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How can you improve a outstanding veteran side who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their active squad.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a