Introduce the Sunday League Squad Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Appearances

How can you enhance a excellent veteran side who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the top level of club football and global football as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with nine former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

This star-studded squad also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global 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 Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

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

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go 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 attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a