Discover this Sunday League Squad With 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you improve a stellar veteran side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the top tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

This elite squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD 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 explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a