Discover this Weekend League Club Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Games

How can you improve a excellent veteran side that have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have played at the highest level of club football and international football as you pursue further honors.

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

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

Their lineup this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a