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What do you improve a excellent experienced team that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players that have played at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a