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What do you improve a stellar experienced squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former pro players that have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target more silverware.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The lineup this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite appearances.

The star-studded team also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a