Introduce this Weekend League Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Games

How can you boost a outstanding veteran team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you target further trophies.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The squad list this season features nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

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

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a