Meet this Weekend League Team Boasting Over 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

How do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have played at the elite level of club and international football as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool 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 do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

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

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents 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 match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a