Meet this Sunday League Club Featuring 1,800 Premier League Games

How do you boost a excellent experienced squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

The squad list this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite team also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love 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 watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, 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'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a