Discover this Weekend League Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Games

What do you improve a outstanding veteran side who have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have played at the top level of club football and international soccer as you pursue more silverware.

One Manchester club fields an amateur vets team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

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

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really 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 playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a