Discover this Sunday League Team Boasting Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you enhance a excellent veteran team who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for more silverware.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The elite roster also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy 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 a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - 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 continue attacking.

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a