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What can you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite level of club and international football as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a