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What can you improve a outstanding experienced side who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have performed at the highest level of club and international football as you aim for additional honors.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The roster this season includes 9 former Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 elite matches.

This elite squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a