Introduce the Weekend League Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Games

What can you boost a stellar veteran side that have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you pursue further honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say 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 do?

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - 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 continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a