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How do you enhance a stellar veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have played at the highest level of club football and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this season features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester 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 secured 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a