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How can you improve a excellent experienced side that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club and international football as you target additional silverware.

One Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active lineup.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

This star-studded squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a