Discover the Sunday Division Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you enhance a excellent experienced team who have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Greater Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games 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 most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

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

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a