Discover the Sunday League Club With 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How can you improve a outstanding experienced team that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse'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 match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a