Discover the Sunday Division Club Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How do you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

The lineup this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - 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 attacking.

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a