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What can you boost a excellent experienced team that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have performed at the elite level of club and international football as you aim for further silverware.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home match against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a