Discover the Sunday League Club Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How can you enhance a outstanding veteran side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you aim for further honors.

One Manchester team has an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight games.

The star-studded roster also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

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

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a