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What can you enhance a outstanding veteran side that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you aim for more silverware.

A Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League players in their present squad.

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

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

The lineup this campaign includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a