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What can you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for further trophies.

A Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move 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 attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a