Meet this Sunday Division Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

How can you enhance a outstanding veteran side who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have played at the top tier of club and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

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

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

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

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

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

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a