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What can you improve a outstanding experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Tier.

The squad list this season includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

The elite squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

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

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

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

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a