Introduce the Sunday League Team With Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Games

How do you improve a stellar veteran squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for additional honors.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their lineup this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker 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 former Premier League players have claimed 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

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

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a