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What can you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue additional honors.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a