Discover this Weekend League Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What can you enhance a stellar experienced squad who have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and global football as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The people who come and see are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a